Deprecation period (was Re: [Zope3-dev] BBB and Deprecation Warnings)

Jim Fulton jim at zope.com
Tue Jan 3 14:41:24 EST 2006


Benji York wrote:
> Stephan Richter wrote:
> 
>> On Tuesday 03 January 2006 13:33, Benji York wrote:
>>
>>> > As a corollary, it would be time now to remove the BBB that should be
>>> > removed for 3.3. Should we wait for 3.4?
>>>
>>> Following the rules above, if 3.3 will be released more than 12 months
>>> since the release of 3.1, it would be OK to remove the code now.
>>
>>
>> Unfortunately, Zope 3.1 *final* was not released until 10/2/2005, so 
>> that 3.3 will be out before 12 months.
> 
> 
> 12 months seems like a good interval to me, not too long to be overly 
> burdensome on the developers, but not so short as to be overly demanding 
> of users.
> 
> As much as BBB code annoys me personally, I think maintaining a minimum 
> compatibility window is necessary for an important class of user.

I think 12 months is a bit short.  I don't think the backward-compatibility code
is that burdonsome, once written.  What do other folks think?

Jim

-- 
Jim Fulton           mailto:jim at zope.com       Python Powered!
CTO                  (540) 361-1714            http://www.python.org
Zope Corporation     http://www.zope.com       http://www.zope.org


More information about the Zope3-dev mailing list