PyXML package - deprecate it?

Matej Cepl mcepl at redhat.com
Thu Feb 23 17:00:13 UTC 2012


On 23.2.2012 16:54, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> It's not as simple as saying that a library provides something that has the
> same names as modules in the stdlib, you also have to figure out
> compatibility and whether removing it will cause any problems for software
> that Fedora ships.

Completely agree with what you were writing, just to note that IIRC 
PyXML was the first Python XML library, so I would believe plenty of 
projects use it just because of conservatism/laziness/fear of change.

Matěj



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