[Python-Dev] Deprecate ``multifile``?
Georg Brandl
g.brandl at gmx.net
Tue Feb 21 17:18:01 CET 2006
Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 14:01 +0100, Georg Brandl wrote:
>> Fredrik Lundh wrote:
>> > Georg Brandl wrote:
>> >
>> >> as Jim Jewett noted, multifile is supplanted by email as much as mimify etc.
>> >> but it is not marked as deprecated. Should it be deprecated in 2.5?
>> >
>> > -0.5 (gratuitous breakage).
>> >
>> > I think the current "see also/supersedes" link is good enough.
>>
>> Well, it would be deprecated like the other email modules, that is, only
>> a note is added to the docs and it is added to PEP 4. There would be no
>> warning.
>
> IIRC, when I brought this up ages ago, there was some grumbling that
> multifile is useful for other than email/MIME applications. Still, I'm
> +1 on PEP 4'ing it.
Which means "go ahead" or "wait for others to be -1"? <wink>
Georg
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