Expiration of devel/py-[c]elementtree

[Martin Wilke]

I will remove it shortly after 9.0 release and an exp run.

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On Nov 12, 2011, at 13:59, Ruslan Mahmatkhanov <cvs-src at yandex.ru> wrote:

> 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 :)
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Ruslan
> 
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