On Dienstag, 21. Mai 2019 13:24:34 CEST Victor Stinner wrote: > Le mar. 21 mai 2019 à 13:18, André Malo <n...@perlig.de> a écrit : > > There's software in production using both. (It doesn't mean it's on pypi > > or even free software). > > > > What would be the maintenance burden of those modules anyway? (at least > > for nntp, I guess it's not gonna change). > > The maintenance burden is real even if it's not visible. For example, > test_nntplib is causing frequently issues on our CI: > > https://bugs.python.org/issue19756 > https://bugs.python.org/issue19613 > https://bugs.python.org/issue31850 > > It's failing frequently since 2013, and nobody managed to come with a > fix.. in 6 years. > > There are 11 open issues with "nntp" in their title (8 with exactly > "nntplib" in their title). > > test_nntplib uses the public server news.trigofacile.com which is > operated by Julien ÉLIE. Two years ago, Julien asked me if there is > any plan to support the NNTP "COMPRESS" command.
So what I hear is, this battery is definitely not dead, which is what the PEP is all about. it's just half charged (or discharged, depending on your POV), so to speak. Substitute: "none" should read pypi then? nd -- "Solides und umfangreiches Buch" -- aus einer Rezension <http://pub.perlig.de/books.html#apache2> _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com