> Regarding this whole @experimental discussion (I never heard of > @experimental until just now), it seems like yet another case of > trying to use some awkward mechanism to get around ignorance of Python > packaging and modules. Python has this amazing thing called > "Python libraries" and a "packaging system" (pip) that makes it > possible to write and share code with other people. People should > check it out...
On the thread https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sage-devel/LXWs6KOw0Lk, William Stein wrote: --- I think this is a really good idea. I'm surprised we didn't explicitly think about it when deciding on our deprecation policy in the first place. I'm definitely for there being a way to include code in Sage that is very explicitly marked as unstable for which the usual deprecation policy doesn't apply. (I'm against such code not having 100% doctest coverage.) --- Following the very positive response Thierry's suggestion got, the @experimental decorator was created. Please don't be condescending while contradicting yourself. Best, Johan -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
