Re:Deprecate FTP support (deprecated)
by eesmith on Thursday October 15, 2020 @12:05AM
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I hadn't heard about this as a synonym for abandonment or replacement before, only the "discourage use" definition, with a possible eye towards future removal.
It can't have been that well known. It isn't mentioned on the Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deprecation . That links to things like http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/277 which include quotes like "Very few deprecated APIs were actually removed, leading some people to believe that nothing would ever be removed. On the other hand, other people believed that everything that was deprecated might eventually be removed, which was never the intent either."
Or in Python, https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0004/ " This PEP defines a procedure for removing modules from the standard Python library. Usage of a module may be 'deprecated', which means that it may be removed from a future Python release."
That terminology is still in use; in https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0632/ published last month, titled "Deprecate distutils module" you can read "In Python 3.10 and 3.11, distutils will be formally marked as deprecated. ... In Python 3.12, distutils will no longer be installed by make install or any of the first-party distribution." That's a two year period where it's deprecated but not removed. Further in the text you can read "Deprecate but do not delete", telling me they aren't viewed as synonyms.
It can't have been that well known. It isn't mentioned on the Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deprecation . That links to things like http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/277 which include quotes like "Very few deprecated APIs were actually removed, leading some people to believe that nothing would ever be removed. On the other hand, other people believed that everything that was deprecated might eventually be removed, which was never the intent either."
Or in Python, https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0004/ " This PEP defines a procedure for removing modules from the standard Python library. Usage of a module may be 'deprecated', which means that it may be removed from a future Python release."
That terminology is still in use; in https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0632/ published last month, titled "Deprecate distutils module" you can read "In Python 3.10 and 3.11, distutils will be formally marked as deprecated. ... In Python 3.12, distutils will no longer be installed by make install or any of the first-party distribution." That's a two year period where it's deprecated but not removed. Further in the text you can read "Deprecate but do not delete", telling me they aren't viewed as synonyms.