[stdlib-sig] Breaking out the stdlib

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Tue Sep 15 22:23:27 CEST 2009


Benjamin Peterson schrieb:
> 2009/9/15 Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net>:
>> Michael Foord schrieb:
>>
>>>>>>> Le mardi 15 septembre 2009 à 19:27 +0100, Michael Foord a écrit :
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Two examples of deprecated modules in the Python documentation:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> http://docs.python.org/library/md5.html
>>>>>>>> http://docs.python.org/library/mimewriter.html
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The deprecation notice could be stronger / more prominent.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Perhaps deprecated modules can get some kind of greyish style
>>>>>>> (background and/or font). Georg, is it possible? :)
>>>>>>>
>>>>> The whole document? Seems a bit too intrusive to me, and there is no obvious
>>>>> connection to the deprecation if the deprecation notice is still hard to see.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Wouldn't a flashing red background with a scrolling marquee in a
>>>> gothic font be more effective?
>>>>
>>> +1 for <blink><marquee> on the whole document...
>>
>> And now for something completely reasonable: same markup as for warnings?
> 
> Isn't there a "deprecated" directive?

Of course, I meant "styling", not "markup". Shame on you for not reading
my mind :)

Georg

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