[Zope-dev] Re: Zope2 interfaces delenda est!

[Martijn Faassen]

Tres Seaver wrote:
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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.
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>>> Objections?  I'll fix the CMF breakage myself, but the Plone folks are
>>> going to have to revisit lots of grotty bits.
>> Isn't the policy to deprecate in release N and remove in N+2?
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> They've been deprecated for five years.

I agree that they've been deprecated for years, so that shouldn't need 
to hold anything up. That said, the consensus seems to be to only remove 
them from the trunk, as Zope 2.11 in a stabilization phase. Removing 
them from the trunk means at least progress.

Regards,

Martijn