[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-474585 ] Deprecate modules (original) (raw)

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Bugs item #474585, was opened at 2001-10-24 12:04 You can respond by visiting: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=474585&group_id=5470

Category: Documentation Group: Python 2.2

Status: Open Resolution: Rejected Priority: 5 Submitted By: Barry Warsaw (bwarsaw) Assigned to: Barry Warsaw (bwarsaw) Summary: Deprecate modules

Initial Comment: The following modules should be marked as deprecated because the new email package provides all the functionality (using different APIs perhaps, and it steals some implementation from rfc822.py, but still...)

rfc822.py mimetools.py MIMEWriter.py

Technically mimify.py should be deprecated too, however the email package doesn't provide the run-as-script functionality. That would be easy to provide as a Tools/script, so I still think it should be deprecated.

Comment By: Barry Warsaw (bwarsaw) Date: 2001-10-24 15:06

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Assigning back to me and re-opening. Not sure it'll be worth it, but this way it'll keep bugging me. :)

Comment By: Fred L. Drake, Jr. (fdrake) Date: 2001-10-24 14:42

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After discussion with Guido, this appears to be too agressive a deprecation schedule for these modules, especially rfc822. A good first step would be to demonstrate that all uses of these modules can use the email package. Perhaps implementations of these modules should be made using the facilities of the email package?

(Don't check them into the library yet; perhaps add them to nondist/sandbox/Lib/ first.)

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