June 23, 2021
10:33 p.m.
On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 10:49:04PM +0100, Irit Katriel via Python-Dev wrote:
The next step is to add deprecation warnings, so that we can eventually delete them. There is also the issue that some of the stdlib tests are still using these libraries, but this does not need to block removing them from the stdlib because we can move them to test.support until those tests are rewritten.
This is a very good idea. I also read in another discussion that offering these as pip installable external packages could be considered, either by the core-dev or by community, just in case there is a reliance on these packages in production code and the developers don't want those the break and aren't ready to upgrade or migrate. Thank you, Senthil