[Python-Dev] PEP 594: Removing dead batteries from the standard library

[Victor Stinner]

Le mar. 21 mai 2019 à 23:05, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> a écrit :
> If the tests don't work and the module is unmaintained, then maybe we
> should disable the tests and put a prominent notice in the docs saying
> that it's unmaintained and any use is at your own risk. It's not a
> pleasant thing to do, but if that's the reality of the situation then
> it's probably better to be up front about it than to stick our fingers
> in our ears and waste folks time with spurious test failures. And
> perhaps someone would actually step up to maintain it.

Well, I already did that in the past.

Lib/test/test_ftplib.py:    @skipUnless(False, "FIXME: bpo-32706")
=> skipped since 2018-01-29

Lib/test/test_nntplib.py:    @unittest.skipIf(True, "FIXME: see bpo-32128")
=> skipped since 2017-11-25.

Oh, I even closed https://bugs.python.org/issue32128. Well, I'm kind
of tired of waiting for fixes in nntplib, so I decided to immediately
close the issue. I'm quite sure that nobody will fix it "soon" :-)
(hint: there FIXME is still there)

I'm not sure about documenting the module as "unmaintained".

Victor
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