Hi Wim,

Thanks for following the process.  Glad to see that this got resolved.  And 
thanks for cleaning up our TERRIBLE HACKs :).

-g

> On Mar 7, 2018, at 2:12 AM, Adi Roiban <a...@roiban.ro> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Thank you so much Wim for helping with this cleanup.
> 
> As commented in the PR I am +1 for this exceptions.
> 
> Cheers,
> Adi
> 
> On 6 March 2018 at 20:20, Wim Lewis <w...@omnigroup.com> wrote:
>> In PR 949 ("Remove “terrible hack” in 
>> t.c.ssh.filetransfer.FileTransferClient", trac bug 9362) I'm removing an 
>> attribute of FileTransferClient which I'm pretty sure was never intended to 
>> be public. Adi Roiban points out that this is technically a 
>> compatibility-breaking change, though, and so it needs more public review.
>> 
>> My reasoning for thinking that this will not break any user code: the 
>> attribute, although not prefixed with an underscore, was undocumented; 
>> anyone relying on it would have had to read the source code to discover what 
>> it does, and in the source it was commented as a "TERRIBLE HACK". I'd hope 
>> this would be enough of a warning. (Also, I can't think of a use for it.)
>> 
>> trac: https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/9362
>> pr: https://github.com/twisted/twisted/pull/949
>> 
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