Expiration of devel/py-[c]elementtree

[Ruslan Mahmatkhanov]

Greg Larkin wrote on 12.11.2011 01:26:
> 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

Fair enough. I assumed that nobody actually using python 2.4, while
asking that. I believe Martin knows better when 2.4 will be set to expire :)

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Regards,
Ruslan

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