I repeat my position: on an omnibus PEP like this, if there's this much debate about one module, it should be struck from the list.
On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 5:46 PM Brett Cannon <bcan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Tue., May 21, 2019, 11:29 Antoine Pitrou, <anto...@python.org> wrote: > >> >> Le 21/05/2019 à 20:16, Brett Cannon a écrit : >> > >> > >> > On Tue., May 21, 2019, 09:10 Christian Heimes, <christ...@python.org >> > <mailto:christ...@python.org>> wrote: >> > >> > On 21/05/2019 17.31, Antoine Pitrou wrote: >> > > >> > > As I said, if the main annoyance with nntplib is the sporadic test >> > > failures, then the relevant tests can be disabled on CI. >> > > >> > > NNTP itself is still used, even if less and less. >> > >> > I don't like the idea to drop a third of the test cases for nntplib >> > -- and the 30% that actually test that Python's NNTP library can >> > talk to an actual NNTP server. IMHO it's more beneficial for core >> > development and for nntplib to have it maintained by somebody that >> > cares about the library. >> > >> > >> > Ditto for me. If the code isn't going to be properly tested then it's >> > already unsupported, at which point we're back to wanting to deprecate >> it. >> >> So I should never have added those tests and then we wouldn't be talking >> about removing nntplib. >> > > Not necessarily. I suspect it still would have been listed, you would have > objected, and someone may have looked at the tests to point out it was only > unit tests with no integration tests against a live service like e.g. the > pythontest.net-related tests and so it was already neglected. > > It also doesn't help that no one is listed in the experts index for the > module either. > > -Brett > > >> Regards >> >> Antoine. >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/brett%40python.org >> > _______________________________________________ > 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/guido%40python.org > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) *Pronouns: he/him/his **(why is my pronoun here?)* <http://feministing.com/2015/02/03/how-using-they-as-a-singular-pronoun-can-change-the-world/>
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