Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote: >Le samedi 28 janvier 2012 à 10:46 -0800, Mike Meyer a écrit : >> Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote: >> >You will see people copying recipes found on the internet without >> >knowing that they rely on unstable APIs. >> >> How. About doing them the way we do depreciated modules, and have >them >> spit warnings to stderr? Maybe add a flag and environment variable >to >> disable that. > >You're proposing that new experimental modules spit warnings when you >use them? To be explicit, when the system loada them. > I don't think that's a good way of promoting their use :) And importing something from __preview__or __experimental__or whatever won't? This thread did include the suggestion that they go into their final location instead of a magic module. >(something we do want to do even though we also want to convey the idea >that they're not yet "stable" or "fully approved") Doing it with a message pointing at the page describing the status makes sure users read the docs before using them. That solves the problem of using them without realizing it. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
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