On 14 Apr 2015 18:26, "Niles Johnson" <nil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > another 2c: There is also the option of deprecating, but for less than the somewhat arbitrary 1 year.
Although I would agree a year is somewhat arbitrary, a couple of things are worth bearing in mind about the year. 1) If a lecturer uses Sage in a course, having a year of stability would be good, rather than functionality being broken half way through a course. 2) I believe Mathematica gives more than a year announcement. IMHO if someone makes use of internal undocumented function, that is their choice, and they should not expect any depreciation warning. But if code in Sage uses that functionality, then it should not be broken. I believe that the argument someone made, that was along the lines of "If it not doctested, it is not proved to work so can be removed" is a very weak argument. Just my 2 pennies, which deapite the fact that currently £0.02 GBP is worth more $0.02 USD, doesn't make it any more that your 2 cents. Dave. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
