"Szabolcs Nagy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I've just seen that gopherlib is deprecated in python 2.5 > http://docs.python.org/lib/module-gopherlib.html > > we still use this protocol (though there are only few working gopher > servers are left on the net) > > My friend just wrote a standard compliant gopher server (pygopherd had > some problems oslt) and it's much better for hierarchycal content > sharing than the http (which is overrated and misused in this respect). > > So i don't really understand why would one remove it from python. It's > a friendly, tiny, simple, standard protocol.
The devolopers thought that perhaps gopherlib was unused in new or updated-to-new releases code. Even if it is by a few, there is still the question of whether gopherlib should be in the stdlib in preference to modules that would be useful to more people or whether it should be a downloadable module at PyPI. The latter would require someone to take ownership of it. You might consider posting a note on py dev (easily accessible via gmane) to let them know there is at least one current user. Terry Jan Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
