[Python-Dev] PEP 3003 - Python Language Moratorium

[Guido van Rossum]

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> The clarification I need is will this in any way influence when
> modules are removed. If they stay in for the life of a major version
> then I want it made clear that bug fixes for the code take lower
> priority over all other code in the standard library.

I think we should be as cautious as ever with removing modules. We've
had our chance for clean-up without abandon with Py3k; now we should
stick with our commitment to backwards compatibility. In fact, we
should probably be *more* conservative than we already were given that
the amount of code written in Python is always increasing and hence
the cumulative pain caused by incompatible changes will increase too.

I'm fine with silent deprecations or requiring a flag to turn on
deprecation warnings (like Java does).

We're not yet at the point where C is, but who wouldn't be next to C
on the TIOBE index? :-)

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