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

[Wichert Akkerman]

Previously Martijn Faassen 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.
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> 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.

Can we make them produce deprecation warnings in a release first? Even
though they may technically be deprecated there I can not find a single
mention of that fact in the Interface package itself or anywhere else.
Only Interface.iclass is marked as deprecated.

Wichert.

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