On 8 Jun 2007, at 22:34, Jack Jansen wrote:

> Problem with deprecating aetools is that there is a truckload of  
> modules that depend on it, findertools among them.

Which ones? Apart from the other OSA modules (which should also be  
deprecated), findertools is the only standard library module that I  
can see. (argvemulator used to use it, but has already been fixed.)

Bear in mind that aetools is completely broken on i386. If there were  
really a need for it, there'd have been constant howls of complaint  
over the last year.

Python 3.0 is coming. 64-bit support is needed. Able bodies are in  
limited supply. Dumping deadweight will improve the Python  
distribution and reduce the amount of upgrade/maintenance work that  
needs to be done. It is the best and easiest way forward and timing  
it right - i.e. deprecated in 2.6, removed in Python 3.0 - will  
minimise the workload for maintainers and the disruption to users.

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