On Wednesday 27 May 2009, Roger Ineichen wrote: > I think using packages with deprecated code is just a workarround > if someone needs to use new features which is built in a > newer version of a package and can't use all the newer > versions of the packages this package depends on. (BBB) > > The better way is to use the old package or the new set of packages. > I agree that this is not always possible. But we should not > excuse us and tink that this is correct. It still has a hugh > potential of problems because the set of versions is based > on BBB and this part is not well tested or test are removed. > > Most the time if you will run into unexpected problems, > some untested old BB code is involved. Take a look at the > old registry code in our zope packages as a sample.
I have been following this discussion and just want to mention that I fully agree with Roger. If you release a final version of Zope or a package that spews deprecation warnings or has not fixed the imports, then this should be considered bad releasing. Regards, Stephan -- Entrepreneur and Software Geek Google me. "Zope Stephan Richter" _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
