Re: No usage of recursiveGet/Set/DelAttr

Andy Robinson <[email protected]> Tue, 1 Mar 2022 15:54:07 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.reportlab.user
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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