[Python-Dev] davlib.py

[Skip Montanaro]

    Fred> I think this is really a matter for Py3K; the 1.x series has a lot
    Fred> of backward-compatibility issues.  There's no need to move things
    Fred> to packages if the old names are still supported; that just
    Fred> increases the clutter (all the old names *plus* the new packages).

Doesn't worry me a bit... ;-)

Lots of other stuff has been deprecated in the relatively recent past:
regex, regexp, the <>, the assert statement.  Some things (regexp and assert
come to mind) have actually even been deleted (oh, the horror of it all!).
The relative danger of actual code breakage only lengthens the time between
deprecation and deletion.

If you have an internet.protocols package, you can deprecate the
non-packaged versions of whatever you stick in there.

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