On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 8:14 AM, Johan S. H. Rosenkilde <santaph...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Regarding this whole @experimental discussion (I never heard of >> @experimental until just now), it seems like yet another case of >> trying to use some awkward mechanism to get around ignorance of Python >> packaging and modules. Python has this amazing thing called >> "Python libraries" and a "packaging system" (pip) that makes it >> possible to write and share code with other people. People should >> check it out... > > On the thread > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sage-devel/LXWs6KOw0Lk, William > Stein wrote: > --- > I think this is a really good idea. I'm surprised we didn't > explicitly think about it when deciding on our deprecation policy in > the first place. > > I'm definitely for there being a way to include code in Sage that is > very explicitly marked as unstable for which the usual deprecation > policy doesn't apply. (I'm against such code not having 100% doctest > coverage.) > --- > > Following the very positive response Thierry's suggestion got, the > @experimental decorator was created. > > Please don't be condescending while contradicting yourself.
That thread doesn't mention @experimental or decorators explicitly. For what it is worth, I was trying to be **sarcastic** above, not condescending. It's originally my fault sage is such a monolith instead of divided into meaningful modules. I stand by my statement that you quoted that it should be possible to include code that unstable. I'm not sure that this @experimental decorator is the way to go. It would be more standard to have an explicit library import, which -- on import -- would print out something about it being experimental and unstable. (This is not so unusual in the world of software.) William -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
