On Dienstag, 21. Mai 2019 13:46:34 CEST Christian Heimes wrote: > On 21/05/2019 13.08, André Malo wrote: > > On Montag, 20. Mai 2019 23:27:49 CEST Antoine Pitrou wrote: > >> NNTP is still quite used (often through GMane, but probably not only) > >> so > >> I'd question the removal of nntplib. > >> > >> cgitb used to be used by some Web frameworks in order to format > >> exceptions. Perhaps one should check if that's still the case. > > > > I concur with both of those. > > There's software in production using both. (It doesn't mean it's on pypi > > or even free software). > > There is always somebody who uses a feature. This argument blocks any > innovation or cleanup. Victor just reminded me of https://xkcd.com/1172/ > . > > * The removed modules will be available through PyPI. > * You don't have to start to worry until Python 3.10 is released in over 3 > years from now. * The modules are fully supported in Python 3.8 and 3.9. > Python 3.9 will reach EOL late 2026 or early 2027.
Correct. However that's a valid argument for the whole stdlib. I agree with Victor (in the other branch), that we should call the PEP how it's meant. It effectively boils down to: "We don't want to maintain these modules anymore, volunteers step forward within the next 3 years". It would definitely draw a clear line and cut short a lot of discussions (like this one). And it would be perfectly fine, for me at least. nd -- package Hacker::Perl::Another::Just;print qq~@{[reverse split/::/ =>__PACKAGE__]}~; # André Malo # http://www.perlig.de # _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com