On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 01:50:31AM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote:
No, that's the wrong question to ask. The onus is on *you* to ask "Who is this feature for? Do they still need it? Can we meet their needs in a different way?". You're the one proposing to break things, so it's up to you to make the case for why that's an OK thing to do. [...] That's not the way this works - backwards compatibility is sacrosanct, and it requires some seriously compelling evidence to justify a breach.
Thanks for saying this. I get frustrated by the number of times people propose removing -O (apparently) just because they personally don't use it. I personally have never got any benefit from the tarfile or multiprocessing modules, but I don't ask for them to be removed :-) -- Steven