[Zope-dev] package dependency refactoring progress report

[Tres Seaver]

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Shane Hathaway wrote:
> Martijn Faassen wrote:
>> It's interesting to see zope.deprecation is a new dependency. We could 
>> consider changing these deprecations to simple imports if this is 
>> possible...
> 
> Certainly, but what is the right way to deprecate code, then?  I'm not 
> very happy about including zope.deprecation either, since it uses the 
> sys.modules trick just like zope.deferredimport, but those deprecation 
> warnings are important, aren't they?

Not so much, IMO.  I think we can leave simple BBB imports in place,
warning-free, forever (with a '#BBB' comment so that people don't delete
them as unused imports).


Tres.
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