[Python-Dev] Deprecate ``multifile``?

[Georg Brandl]

Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 14:01 +0100, Georg Brandl wrote:
>> Fredrik Lundh wrote:
>> > Georg Brandl wrote:
>> > 
>> >> as Jim Jewett noted, multifile is supplanted by email as much as mimify etc.
>> >> but it is not marked as deprecated. Should it be deprecated in 2.5?
>> > 
>> > -0.5 (gratuitous breakage).
>> > 
>> > I think the current "see also/supersedes" link is good enough.
>> 
>> Well, it would be deprecated like the other email modules, that is, only
>> a note is added to the docs and it is added to PEP 4. There would be no
>> warning.
> 
> IIRC, when I brought this up ages ago, there was some grumbling that
> multifile is useful for other than email/MIME applications.  Still, I'm
> +1 on PEP 4'ing it.

Which means "go ahead" or "wait for others to be -1"? <wink>

Georg