mabshoff wrote: > On Jun 1, 12:27 am, "Gary Furnish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Gary, > >> A bunch of the stuff in misc.functional is junk... I've deleted a >> bunch of it in my symbolics rewrite without any issues. > > You because you didn't have any problem there does not mean we can > just delete things willy-nilly. I would very strongly recommend that > we write down some deprecation procedure and make it mandatory that > such procedures are followed.
For the general guidelines, I suggest that we use the python deprecation facilities in this standard procedure. For example, using the warnings module to issue DeprecationWarning and PendingDeprecationWarning messages/exceptions (see http://docs.python.org/lib/module-warnings.html). Jason --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---