[Python-Dev] PEP 594 - a proposal for unmaintained modules (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sun May 26 05:46:16 EDT 2019

On Fri, 24 May 2019 09:54:05 -0700 Steve Dower <steve.dower at python.org> wrote:

All in all, this is basically where we are today, with the exception that we haven't officially said that we no longer support these modules. PEP 594 is this official statement, and our usual process for things we don't support is to remove them in two versions time. It doesn't have to be so controversial - either the people who are saying "we rely on this" are also willing to help us maintain them, or they're not. And if they're not, they clearly don't rely on it (or realize the cost of relying on volunteer-maintained software).

This is an absurd statement. You can rely on something without having the time or competence required to maintain it yourself. Division of labour exists for a reason.

Obviously this doesn't mean that the CPython development team must absorb any development activity that may be useful to the greater public. But widely-used software packages such as a Python and its stdlib have a tremendous enabling effect.

Regards

Antoine.

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