Expiration of devel/py-[c]elementtree

Greg Larkin glarkin at FreeBSD.org
Fri Nov 11 21:54:29 UTC 2011


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On 11/11/11 7:30 AM, Ruslan Mahmatkhanov wrote:
> Good day!
> 
> We have two pr's here:
> http://bugs.freebsd.org/155524
> http://bugs.freebsd.org/155526
> 
> And the last consumer of them in the tree was fixed today.
> Since python 2.5 we have xml.etree.ElementTree and
> xml.etree.cElementTree in the standard library. This package are drop-in
> replacement for aforementioned ports, except of HTMLTreeBuilder class
> that is missing. But we don't have ports that use it anyway.
> 
> All the modern software uses or bundled xml.etree or lxml
> (devel/py-lxml) or html5lib (www/py-html5lib) instead. So i want to ask
> is there any objections if I mark them deprecated and remove in one month?
> 
> 

My sense is these ports should be set to expire at the same time as
python 2.4. When is that change going to be made to its Makefile?

Regards,
Greg
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