[Zope-dev] Re: Deprecation process issues

[Florent Guillaume]

Tres Seaver wrote:
> I've noticed a couple of problems with recent deprecation decisions (for
> OFS.content_types and zLOG).  The major one is that the deprecation
> warning waw added without removing the code in the core which depends on
> the deprecated feature.  The most obvious sign of this is that the tests
> no longer "run clean", but are cluttered up with warning output.

Yes this is a major pain. Such that in my sandboxes the first thing I do is 
comment out the warning in zLOG.

Florent

> Another issue is that at least one of those choices (the zLOG one)
> seemed to land without accounting for the legitimate use cases which the
> new "blessed" method doesn't address (e.g, logging levels not offered by
> the standard 'logging' module).
> 
> I'm about to check in changes which clean out the use of
> OFS.content_types, but am less willing to clean up the zLOG uses until
> the other use cases are addressed.


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