[Zope-dev] Re: OFS.Application deprecations for Zope 2.10

[Florent Guillaume]

On 14 Jun 2006, at 00:45, Chris McDonough wrote:
> On Jun 13, 2006, at 4:13 PM, Florent Guillaume wrote:
>> Yes but the deprecation has been there for a while, and the third  
>> party product developers have been ignoring the warning. Their loss.
>
> You're right.  This only because I haven't managed to get off 2.8  
> on any of my projects, so I just never see these warnings.
>
> The reason I haven't been able to make it off 2.8 is due mostly to  
> other deprecation/feature addition aggressiveness that has taken  
> place in 2.9 and on the HEAD.  Us plain old folks just can't keep up.
>
> I really wouldn't at all mind releasing a patched EE if the thing  
> being deprecated was worth deprecating.  But IMO this was a bad  
> deprecation, and we should just un-deprecate it.

FWIW I patched EE's trunk on svn.zope.org.

>> If we don't remove things at some point, there's no point in doing  
>> deprecation warnings.
>
> I think the deprecation shouldn't have been done in the first  
> place.  This is only about "methods" not about __ac_permissions__  
> and so on that have warnings in the file.
>
>> We can push it back to Zope 2.11... Actually I really don't care,  
>> I've patched EE.
>
> Or we can just pretend we never deprecated 'methods', remove the  
> warning, and get on with it; no harm, no foul.

Then the framework never gets cleaned up.

Florent

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