-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dieter Maurer wrote:

Tres Seaver wrote at 2008-5-23 17:54 -0400:

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... It provides the Z2 interfaces or *backward compatibilty*: those interfaces never worked for component dispatch (which makes them useless for their major purpose), and the various places in the Zope2 code which attempted to allow "sniffing" them were crufty bug magnets.

Encouraging people to take another year ripping them out is silly.

It is the agreed upon policy: step 1 we deprecate the feature and issue deprecation warings indicating when the feature will go away; step 2 we remove the feature.

Why do you not have introduced the deprecation warnings years ago? Do it now at least for Zope 2.11 as you have already removed the code on the trunk.

Done: http://svn.zope.org/Zope/branches/2.11/?rev=86939&view=rev Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tseaver@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIOPl8+gerLs4ltQ4RAqfLAJ9S7a/Uxhw+L9ECRy/erJ57fBlidQCgx1JX FRI1z2B5DiMIqoiM6T299tE= =koMz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----