Sorry if I am a bit off base, but I have only been browsing this thread... I think that at some point the really old stuff that has a replacement should get removed. Why not provide a LegacyStdlib egg on Pypi? This could create a compatibility layer and help those that do not want to change their code .
On 9/15/09, Michael Foord <mich...@voidspace.org.uk> wrote: > M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> Laura Creighton wrote: >> >>> So what do you think of this proposal? >>> >> >> Good write-up and very much to the point. >> >> [Executive Summary: >> Code that hardly needs any changes, because it does what it's meant >> to do, is good code, not bad code. And it causes only minimal >> maintenance effort, so it's actually something core developer should >> welcome rather than fight against.] >> >> > Right - but part of the specific problem with optparse is that in many > situations it does a very inadequate job (i.e. it "it does what it is > meant to do" but not what many people "need it to do") and is designed > in such a way that *required* functionality can't be added in a > backwards compatible way. > > That is not "good code" (by my reckoning). > > Michael > > >> I'd only change the tag "dead-as-a-doornail" to "complete, proven and >> stable". Sounds more accurate. >> >> -- >> Marc-Andre Lemburg >> eGenix.com >> >> Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Sep 15 2009) >> >>>>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>>>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>>>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ >>>>> >> ________________________________________________________________________ >> >> ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: >> >> >> eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 >> D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg >> Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 >> http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ >> > > > -- > http://www.ironpythoninaction.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > stdlib-sig mailing list > stdlib-sig@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/stdlib-sig > -- Sent from my mobile device David blog: http://www.traceback.org twitter: http://twitter.com/dstanek _______________________________________________ stdlib-sig mailing list stdlib-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/stdlib-sig
