[Python-3000] PEP 3108: Standard Library Reorganization

[Mike Orr]

On 1/1/07, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> I also have this feeling that by ditching so much that's widely used,
> we're setting Python 3.0 up for a lot of criticism that the batteries
> were removed.

I was uncomfortable with telnet leaving for that reason.

> For example, as icky as all those server modules are,
> they're darn handy and a lot of code has been written for them.
> Maybe I'm totally off base here, but it seems like it's one thing to
> restructure the hierarchy, and pepify the names, but it's another to
> just remove code unless there are compelling enough alternatives that
> folks are willing to rewrite everything to use them.

There is the 'lib-old' directory for modules that are unsupported but
we're not ready to finish off.  Alternatively, they can be put in a
Cheeseshop package.

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Mike Orr <sluggoster at gmail.com>