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

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Sun May 26 21:55:02 EDT 2019

On Sun, May 26, 2019 at 04:03:11PM +0300, Ivan Pozdeev via Python-Dev wrote:

On 24.05.2019 9:55, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >I don't know if this is a good idea or a terrible idea or somewhere in >between, so I'm throwing it out to see if anyone likes it. [...]

This would greately damage Python's image as a mature, reliable product, something that you can bank on for your critical tasks.

By including something into the offer, we implicitly endorse it and claim that we want out users to use that rather than competing offers.

Do we? I don't think that is the case for everything -- we certainly don't want people using private or undocumented functions, nor do we want them using deprecated code.

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You may argue that marking it as unsupported would do the same but it wouldn't. This mean I'll have to be constantly on the lookout for hidden notes and such,

Is "from unmaintained import module" enough to tell you that the module is unmaintained?

-- Steven

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