[Python-Dev] [python-committers] Enabling depreciation warnings feature code cutoff

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 11:34 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 9, 2017, 17:33 Nathaniel Smith, <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
>> - if an envvar CI=true is set, then by default make deprecation warnings
>> into errors. (This is an informal standard that lots of CI systems use.
>> Error instead of "once" because most people don't look at CI output at all
>> unless there's an error.)
>
> One problem with that is I don't want e.g. mypy to start spewing out
> warnings while checking my code. That's why I like Victor's idea of a -X
> option that also flips on other test/debug features. Yes, this would also
> trigger for test runners, but that's at least a smaller amount of affected
> code.

Ah, yeah, you're right -- often CI systems use Python programs for
infrastructure, beyond the actual code under test. pip is maybe a more
obvious example than mypy -- we probably don't want pip to stop
working in CI runs just because it happens to use a deprecated API
somewhere :-). So this idea doesn't work.

-n

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Nathaniel J. Smith -- https://vorpus.org