On Jan 22, 2014, at 1:46 PM, Brian Curtin <br...@python.org> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 12:10 PM, John Yeuk Hon Wong > <gokoproj...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 1/22/14 8:16 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: >>> >>> Which is exactly the way most non-web-specialists working inside the >>> comfort of corporate and academic firewalls will react to a change that >>> breaks their access to internal applications, where self-signed certs and >>> improperly configured internal CAs are endemic (of course, that's assuming >>> they're using HTTPS at all, which I admit is an optimistic assumption). >> >> The number of people who are using 3.4+ in these environments is probably >> very very low to be honest. I don't have a number to prove, but in that >> environment people are more likely to still be using 2.6+. I think a >> deprecation in 2.7+ would be nice, but forward we should just enable it by >> default. >> >> When requests changed property calls (e.g. requests.json) to callable >> instead of an attribute(from requests.json to requests.json()), I was >> shocked. I had to figure out by Googling it. I found out from github >> issue.... >> >> I think a hard fail is somehow necessary. >> >> Also, a lot of people overlook at deprecation warnings. They either don't >> care or don't see it. I see a lot of deprecation warnings in the older >> applications I write, but I can careless until it breaks. So as we moving >> forward, we can break it. For those stuck behind, deprecation is the right >> approach. > > They're disabled by default, so a lot of people simply don't know they > exist because they also don't read the documentation.
Ironically this is the exact reason why validation should happen by default :] ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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