Hi Serhiy, For me, "deprecated" should be used if the removal is *not* planned: the feature is too popular, and removing it would break too much 3rd party code.
"deprecated-removal" should be used if the feature removal *is* planned. IMO it's ok if we forget to remove the feature and keep it longer than expected. But it should help users to raise their awareness that the removal *will* happen. Having a release version gives a deadline. Victor On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 12:37 PM Serhiy Storchaka <storch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I always thought that the "deprecated" directive is used if the term of > removing the deprecated feature is not set yet, and the > "deprecated-removed" directive is used if it is set. After removing the > feature both directives are replaced with the "versionchanged" directive > which only specifies the version of removing, not version of deprecation. > > But after reading the devguide [1] I am no longer so confident. The > devguide clearly describes it as specifying version at which the feature > "is" removed, not "will be" removed. Maybe I always used this directive > incorrectly? Or its meaning was changed with time? Or I incorrectly > understand the devguide wording? Or devguide is incorrect? > > Before 3.8 I only seen "deprecated-removed" with future removing > version. The first use "deprecated-removed" for feature which is already > deleted happened in 3.8 (maybe the directive was just not updated), and > there are now many uses for features removed in asyncio in 3.10. > > What was the initial meaning of "deprecated-removed", how it should be > used now, and is the devguide correct? > > [1] > https://devguide.python.org/documenting/?highlight=deprecated-removed#paragraph-level-markup > > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/SWBM2N4EFPVQFP4TX6Q33L5OK2WPBFRU/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ -- Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/STQ6JSRYODHMNIEYTYSCM3AZH3MSMRWC/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
