[Python-Dev] Deprecating modules (python-dev summary for early Dec, 2004)

[Jim Jewett]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 16:21:34 -0600, Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> wrote:
> 
>     Jim> Would it make sense to add an attic (or even "deprecated")
>     Jim> directory to the end of sys.path, and move old modules there?  This
>     Jim> would make the search for non-deprecated modules a bit faster, and
>     Jim> would make it easier to verify that new code isn't depending
>     Jim> (perhaps indirectly) on any deprecated features.
 
> That's what lib-old is for.  All people have to do is append it to sys.path
> to get access to its contents:

That seems to be for "obsolete" modules.

Should deprecated modules be moved there as well?

I had proposed a middle ground, where they were moved to a separate directory,
but that directory was (by default) included on the search path.

Moving deprecated modules to lib-old (not on the search path at all) seems to 
risk breaking code.

-jJ