Tarek Ziadé wrote: > On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:52 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> wrote: > [..] >>> I've refactored distutils/ and site.py so they work with this new >>> module, and added deprecation warnings in distutils.sysconfig. >> >> I think we really need to do something about these kinds of >> deprecations. >> >> IMHO, there is no need to deprecate an entry point if the code >> has just moved to some other location in the stdlib. >> >> A simple note in the documentation and the NEWS file should be >> enough to get programmers to use the new location for code that >> doesn't have to work with older Python versions. > > There are both cases in fact: some APIs have just moved, and some have > changed. So I guess I could keep a deprecation warning only for the > latter.
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