On Sun, May 26, 2019 at 04:03:11PM +0300, Ivan Pozdeev via Python-Dev wrote: > On 24.05.2019 9:55, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >I don't know if this is a good idea or a terrible idea or somewhere in > >between, so I'm throwing it out to see if anyone likes it. [...]
> This would greately damage Python's image as a mature, reliable product, > something that you can bank on for your critical tasks. > > By including something into the offer, we implicitly endorse it and claim > that we want out users to use that rather than competing offers. Do we? I don't think that is the case for everything -- we certainly don't want people using private or undocumented functions, nor do we want them using deprecated code. [...] > You may argue that marking it as unsupported would do the same but it > wouldn't. This mean I'll have to be constantly on the lookout for hidden > notes and such, Is "from unmaintained import module" enough to tell you that the module is unmaintained? -- Steven _______________________________________________ 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
