[Python-Dev] Rewriting PEP4

M.-A. Lemburg mal at egenix.com
Mon Dec 13 15:13:13 CET 2004


Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 16:28, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
> 
> Martin, +1 on everything you wrote, with one minor quibble.
> 
> 
>>Removal
>>=======
>>If the module has been deprecated for atleast a year and atleast
>>a version, it can be removed. Removal should move it to old-libs
>>for pure Python modules; a removal procedure for pure C modules
>>has not been defined yet.
> 
> 
> I wonder if the one year/one version rule is too short.  Given that new
> versions come about every 18 months, I'd probably give it a 2 year/one
> version limit.

+1

I'd make that 2 years / 2 versions, though.

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