Florent Guillaume wrote:
Yes but the deprecation has been there for a while, and the third party
product developers have been ignoring the warning. Their loss.
And this is only for Zope 2.10 which I doubt these third party products
are using at the moment.
If we don't remove things at some point, there's no point in doing
deprecation warnings.
This and things like it have been niggling me for a while now and I
guess this finally prompted me to write a mail on it...
I know the good reasoning behind the time-based releases, but have they
really worked out?
As someone else who never has enough time to "keep up" with releases
I've found the introduction of time-based releases a generally negative
thing.
I don't say that lightly, they certainly sounded like a great idea when
they were introduced but I've experienced more bugs, a helluva lot more
pointless deprecation squeal and a lot more "upgrade fear" since this
process was introduced. For me, the fact that Zope 2.9.3 still emits
deprecation warnings on a fresh install (zLOG...) is a pretty bad sign.
I dunno, it just feels like features are being rammed in and a _lot_ of
stuff is being deprecated, sometimes without as much thought as should
be given. Change for change's sake is never a good thing. As a result,
I'm still mainly on a mix of Zope 2.7 and 2.8, and finally taking timid
steps to 2.9 for some projects, all of which have required new versions
of just about every add-on product.
Now, this could all be seen as fair game, Zope _is_ going through a
period of big and positive change as Zope 2 and Zope 3 converge, things
like zLOG finally get put to rest and we move onto newer more powerful
versions of python.
If that's the case, then I hope we, as a community, "get there" at some
point and can get back to focusing on the stability of the good ol' days.
Would be interested to know what other people think...
Chris
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