[Python-Dev] PEP 3003 - Python Language Moratorium

[R. David Murray]

On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 at 15:48, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote:
> On Nov 6, 2009, at 9:04 AM, exarkun at twistedmatrix.com wrote:
>> End users don't even need to be told this much, though (and if it's javac 
>> that does this for Java, then indeed Java end users probably aren't seeing 
>> this either).  I think it would be great for deprecation warnings to be 
>> completely silent for a while *and* for the policy to be prominently 
>> documented so that developers, the people who really need this information, 
>> know how to get it.
>
> Documentation would be great, but then you have to get people to read the 
> documentation and that's kind of tricky.  Better would be for every project 
> on PyPI to have a score which listed warnings emitted with each version of 
> Python.  People love optimizing for stuff like that and comparing it.
>
> I suspect that even if all warnings were completely silent by default, 
> developers would suddenly become keenly interested in fixing them if there 
> were a metric like that publicly posted somewhere :).

+1, but somebody needs to write the code...

--David (RDM)