[Python-Dev] Distutils using apply

[Guido van Rossum]

> My comment was not specifically about Moshe's use case - it's about
> the meaning of deprecation in Python.
> 
> Does it always have to mean "start replacing because it *will* go
> away" as seems to be implied by PEP 5 or perhaps in some cases it
> could just mean "please don't use this in new code, okay" ?

I think that can be safely left up to the individual programmer, who
has a better idea (hopefully) on the life expectancy of his code.  We
try to give guidance about the urgency of the deprecation e.g. in PEPs
or by using the normally-silent PendingDeprecation (which suggests
it's not urgent :-).

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)