[Python-Dev] API bloat

[Terry Reedy]

On 2/11/2011 4:29 AM, Mark Shannon wrote:
> Nick Coghlan wrote:

>> Now that the issue has been brought up, it can certainly be taken into
>> consideration for 3.3. The idea of defining a Py_PORTABLE_API that is
>> even more restrictive than PEP 384 (e.g. eliminating lots of old cruft
>> that is a legacy of CPython's long history of development when it was
>> the *only* viable Python implementation) may also be worth exploring.
>
> Absolutely. I intend to do just that.

I think we should try to have deprecations and removals in the codebase 
by the first alpha release for maximal testing. GP's asyncore changes 
inspired this thought, but I would apply it generally.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy