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Tue May 21 21:19:42 EDT 2019 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2019-May/157602.html

I repeat my position: on an omnibus PEP like this, if there's this much
debate about one module, it should be struck from the list.

On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 5:46 PM Brett Cannon <bcannon at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Tue., May 21, 2019, 11:29 Antoine Pitrou, <antoine at python.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> Le 21/05/2019 à 20:16, Brett Cannon a écrit :
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue., May 21, 2019, 09:10 Christian Heimes, <christian at python.org
>> > <mailto:christian at python.org>> wrote:
>> >
>> >     On 21/05/2019 17.31, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>> >     >
>> >     > As I said, if the main annoyance with nntplib is the sporadic test
>> >     > failures, then the relevant tests can be disabled on CI.
>> >     >
>> >     > NNTP itself is still used, even if less and less.
>> >
>> >     I don't like the idea to drop a third of the test cases for nntplib
>> >     -- and the 30% that actually test that Python's NNTP library can
>> >     talk to an actual NNTP server. IMHO it's more beneficial for core
>> >     development and for nntplib to have it maintained by somebody that
>> >     cares about the library.
>> >
>> >
>> > Ditto for me. If the code isn't going to be properly tested then it's
>> > already unsupported, at which point we're back to wanting to deprecate
>> it.
>>
>> So I should never have added those tests and then we wouldn't be talking
>> about removing nntplib.
>>
>
> Not necessarily. I suspect it still would have been listed, you would have
> objected, and someone may have looked at the tests to point out it was only
> unit tests with no integration tests against a live service like e.g. the
> pythontest.net-related tests and so it was already neglected.
>
> It also doesn't help that no one is listed in the experts index for the
> module either.
>
> -Brett
>
>
>> Regards
>>
>> Antoine.
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[Python-Dev] PEP 594: update 1