[stdlib-sig] should we try to add argparse?

[Barry Warsaw]

On Sep 10, 2009, at 5:14 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

> +0 on deprecating getopt, -1 on deprecating optparse. Breaking a
> perfectly functional and useful module is stupid.

Why does deprecation == breaking?

If you want to continue using optparse, that'll be fine for what?  
18-36 months or so?  It's a trivial amount of work to port from  
optparse to argparse.  We have a process for deprecating modules, so  
let's follow that and migrate to the much better library.

-Barry

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