July 7, 2011
5:33 p.m.
On 7/7/2011 7:28 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
The main point of the PEP, IMO, is actually the deprecation itself. By deprecating, we signal that something isn't actively maintained anymore, and that a (allegedly better) alternative is available. I think that's a very reasonable thing to do, regardless of whether or not the "thing" actually gets removed in a later version.
Yes, the final decision could be deprecate now, remove in 4.0, as happened during the 2.x series.