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
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