2009/3/3 Brett Cannon <br...@python.org>: > > > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 17:30, Eric Smith <e...@trueblade.com> wrote: >>> >>> We need a really long lead time before we can remove these. I >>> recommend starting with a *silent* deprecation in 3.1 combined with a >>> PR offensive for the new names. >> >> I think the old names basically have to live forever in some way, due to >> loading old pickles. Remember the problems we had when we tried to >> restructure the library in 2.6? >> > > Forever is a long time. =) If we keep the PendingDeprecationWarning for a > long time and really get the word out of the renames then people can migrate > their pickles over time. The real problem with the 2.6 reorg was that people > didn't want to have zero lead time to update their pickles and they way the > transition was being handled. In this case the old names and simply subclass > the new names and have no issues with old code.
Yes, I'm already looking forward to Py4k now. :) -- Regards, Benjamin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
