[Email-SIG] email 3.0 API changes

[Barry Warsaw]

I've finally gotten around to making the major email 3.0 API changes I'd
planned for Python 2.4.  These are now checked into the Py2.4 tree and
I'll try to spin a standalone email 3.0 alpha distutils package soon. 
In brief, here are the changes:

      * All features that in email 2.x raised DeprecationWarnings have
        now been removed.  These include: the _encoder arg to MIMEText
        constructor, Message.add_payload(), Utils.dump_address_pair(),
        Utils.decode(), Utils.encode()
      * These now raise DeprecationWarnings: Generator.__call__(),
        Message.get_type(), Message.get_main_type(),
        Message.get_subtype(), and the 'strict' argument to the Parser
        constructor.
      * Support for Python earlier than 2.3 is removed.
      * Renamed the Defect classes.

Is there anything else that people want to try to get into email 3.0? 
Note that Python 2.4 beta 1 is scheduled to be released on October 11. 
That same event will freeze email 3.0's API until Python 2.5.  Note that
I'm not promising that I will have any time to develop new code for the
email package between now and then, but if you have patches, I'll
willing to talk about it. :)

-Barry

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