On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:52 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> wrote: [..] >> I've refactored distutils/ and site.py so they work with this new >> module, and added deprecation warnings in distutils.sysconfig. > > I think we really need to do something about these kinds of > deprecations. > > IMHO, there is no need to deprecate an entry point if the code > has just moved to some other location in the stdlib. > > A simple note in the documentation and the NEWS file should be > enough to get programmers to use the new location for code that > doesn't have to work with older Python versions.
There are both cases in fact: some APIs have just moved, and some have changed. So I guess I could keep a deprecation warning only for the latter. Regards Tarek _______________________________________________ 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
