Re: No usage of recursiveGet/Set/DelAttr
Andy Robinson <[email protected]> Tue, 1 Mar 2022 15:54:07 +0000
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On Tue, 1 Mar 2022 at 15:50, Claude Paroz <[email protected]> wrote: > OK, fair, I understand your position. > > One way to do it progressively would be to show deprecation warnings > when using the functions, before removing them in a future version. > Or simply wait and do it for a future 4.0 version, where the major > version number may signify library users that some compatibility might > be broken (and I detected several other unused functions in the > lib/utils.py file that could be purged in the same time). > > But I also understand that the effort might not be worth doing. That's > your maintainer's privilege to make such choices :-) > > Thanks for your understanding. Old code bases are never very pretty, and the main thing their users want in my experience is "no unexpected changes". - Andy