[stdlib-sig] standardizing the deprecation policy (and how noisy they are)

[Antoine Pitrou]

Le lundi 09 novembre 2009 à 13:51 -0800, Guido van Rossum a écrit :
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> > (have you ever launched a Gnome or KDE app from the command-line? they
> > can spout *tons* of warnings)
> 
> Yes, this is a perfect example of what I *don't* want to happen.

But it doesn't. Most Python applications display at worse one or two
deprecation warnings, which is perfectly bearable.
(the exception is -3, and that's why it's good to have it opt-in rather
than opt-out)