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Remove deprecated io.ascii Reader/Writer and unified I/O interfaces #8567
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The Reader / Writer keywords for io.ascii.read/write have been deprecated for quite a while.
Likewise Unified I/O formats like aastex (instead of ascii.aastex) have been deprecated for quite a while.
The 4.0 release would be a good time to clean this up!
Reacted by Brigitta Sipőcz
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bsipocz commentedon Oct 25, 2019
@taldcroft - Is this still on the table?
taldcroft commentedon Oct 25, 2019
Sure, but I probably don't have time to do it.
pllim commentedon Oct 25, 2019
I started to look into it, but it does not appear to be a simple "just remove the deprecated code" kind of thing. Plain removal of
Readerfromget_reader()resulted in horrible test failures, so I am guessingget_readeritself needs to be removed as well? This is too involved for me and does not look like anyone else has time, so I am moving the milestone.taldcroft commentedon Oct 25, 2019
Indeed. Agreed on moving the milestone.
bsipocz commentedon Apr 30, 2020
I suppose this is off the table for 4.1, so I'm remilestoning.
pllim commentedon Oct 22, 2020
@taldcroft , should we move the milestone again?
bsipocz commentedon Oct 23, 2020
No point in dragging this through the milestones, the issue is not critical.
It is deprecated now for a while, so the removal can happen in any milestone, if 4.3 is a descoping release then it's ideal, otherwise the 5.0 LTS is good too.