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> Have you tried to fix something in your house with a "homeowner's toolkit" which is usually something like a hammer, pliers, 2 screwdrivers, a putty knife and
by bigiain 7y ago
> Have you tried to fix something in your house with a "homeowner's toolkit" which is usually something like a hammer, pliers, 2 screwdrivers, a putty knife and a few more basic tools?
Sure. But did you read the list of proposed deprecations?
It's not like that homeowners toolkit becomes any more useful when it's also got a buggy whip tool, a set of special allen-like keys that only open the case of a TRS80 or a Commodore64, and one of those picks for getting stones out of horses feet.
Most of the proposed things to take out seem obviously "right" to me. AIFF sound file support? MacOS9 binhex? CGI? _Maybe_people are still using those things, but it seems to me like they're edge-case enough to let them know now that they'll need to do "pip install aifc" or "pip install cgi" sometime after late 2021 if they update their python installation (which they can choose to put off until at least 2024 or so, just like all of us who're still sometimes using Python 2.7...)
- rlayton2 7y agoYeah, I went into the article prepared for a "NO! Leave that in!", but I didn't realise just how much very old cruft was in there.