On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Dirkjan Ochtman <dirk...@ochtman.nl> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 23:05, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: >> I haven't seen substantial opposition against the PEP -- in fact I >> can't recall any, and many people have explicitly posted in support of >> it. So unless opposition suddenly appears in the next few days, I'll >> move it to the Accepted state next Monday. > > Let me state first, I think the PEP is great, and I have no objection > to its current form. > > I do have one qualm, where I wonder if the PEP shouldn't be a little > stricter. As a gentoo developer and Mercurial maintainer, most of the > pain in the recent migration towards 2.6 has not been in language > changes, but in the standard library. Unfortunately, it's exempt from > the moratorium in the PEP. > > Which makes me wonder, why are we not adding another moratorium, on > deprecations in the standard library? In other words, let's not > deprecate things like md5 or sha or the popen family of functions, but > keep all of that as it is, for both 2.x and 3.x, so people can direct > their energy towards other things (hopefully porting their 2.x > codebase to 3.x). > > The standard library has already been through a lot of evolution in > the 2.x to 3.x transition, so one might assume there's not a lot of > stuff in the 3.x stdlib that would need deprecation in the short term. > And for 2.x, well, I'd certainly hope we don't need to deprecate much > more there before it finally gets EOL'ed, so it should be a relatively > light maintenance load to bear. > > Is this just crazy talk? > > Cheers, > > Dirkjan >
I'm against restricting deprecation warnings within the stdlib as part of this. I actually want more things cleaned up and possibly deprecated. That being said, a deprecation warning just means we will remove it One Day - anything being deprecated will need a PEP and follow the long path to actual removal. So, -1 from me ;) jesse _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
