[Zope-dev] Zope2 interfaces delenda est!

[Tres Seaver]

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Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Tres Seaver wrote:
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>> I'd like to rip out the old Interface module from the 2.11 branch and
>> the trunk, along with all the useless decoys which import it.  THere is
>> no *good* BBB reason to keep them around:  anybody still depending on
>> them in A.G. 2008 needs to switch over, anyway.
>>
>> Objections?  I'll fix the CMF breakage myself, but the Plone folks are
>> going to have to revisit lots of grotty bits.
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> Isn't the policy to deprecate in release N and remove in N+2?

They've been deprecated for five years.

> -1 on removing in 2.11
> +1 on deprecating in 2.11

I'll accept the *consensus fidelium* that they should be removed only in
the trunk.

Note that *any( code using the old interfaces (Plone has several places,
I know) is a potential booby trap for other developers:  I lost an hour
or so yesterday trying to figure why the "positioning" UI was displaying
on my IOrderableCOntainer, but the objects appeared not to move:  the
'getObjPositionInParent' kludge was using sniffing for the Z2 version of
the interface, instead of adapting.


Tres.
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