[Zope-dev] Deprecate ITerms in zope.app.form? [Re:zope.browser?]

[Christian Zagrodnick]

On 2008-12-22 18:48:47 +0100, "Martijn Faassen" <faassen at startifact.com> said:

> Hi there,
> 
> All right, I was getting a bit confused when it appeared you were
> arguing against moving things at all, but you're basically in favor of
> leaving the old APIs intact without explicitly breaking them.
> 
> I think we need to think of some way to signal that the "preferred
> import location" of something has changed that doesn't result in
> deprecation warnings. It's clear from this discussion that this should
> be done upon request, not during runtime. The old import location can
> then stay around indefinitely.

Right. May I remove the deprecation warning then?

> 
> I'd like a tool that I can point at a package and it'll sort through
> whatever it imports and tell me which ones are not importing from the
> "right" public location. Each package should have some way to indicate
> to that tool whether certain imports are better made from somewhere
> else if one is in the business of reducing dependencies. Perhaps a #
> BBB comment is enough, though what it looks like exactly depends a bit
> on how the tool will work in the end.

A correctly crafted BBB together with some simple grep-like tool would 
be sufficient, would it not?

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