[Zope3-dev] cleanup of zope/component/__init__.py needed

[Jim Fulton]

Garrett Smith wrote:
> I'm frustrated with the way the component API has been changed without a 
> posting to this list explaining the changes. Looking into the source 
> (zope/component/__init__.py), I see various deprecation warnings, some 
> commented out, others at the wrong indent level, not getting called 
> appropriately.
> 
> I know we assume corporate responsibility for the code, and I'm happy to 
> help out, but I think the owner of these changes should clean this code 
> up. This code is too central to be left in this state at this time.
> 
> Btw, my preference is to *not* deprecate something like this, given the 
> push to stabilize the core framework. Utility lookup is something I want 
> to get right, and it's a trivial reordering of arguments.
> 
> I would just humbly request a note posted to this list :-)

OK, here's a note.

I'll try to clean up the warnings on Wednesday.  I think we need the warnings
because these are widely used apis.  Before we activate the warnings, we need to
clean up the repository code so it doesn't generate them.

Jim

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