remove irunner, iplogger

[minrk]

and mkdoctests, which was the only user of irunner

[takluyver]

Is it worth doing a deprecation cycle - i.e. removing the irunner script but leaving the module in place, possibly with a deprecation warning on import, for another cycle, just to soften the blow a bit for anyone who is still using it.

The test failures are because you removed the module and left the tests in place ;-)

[minrk]

I removed them, I just failed to push. Should be there now.

[Carreau]

Is it worth doing a deprecation cycle - i.e. removing the irunner script but leaving the module in place, possibly with a deprecation warning on import, for another cycle, just to soften the blow a bit for anyone who is still using it.

I guess this was discussed internally :-)

[takluyver]

Yep, I asked Min and Paul about it, and the consensus was that we're not likely to revive it anyway, and we have no evidence that anyone is actually using it.

[juliantaylor]

why is irunner removed?
I use it regulary, its incredibly useful to benchmark C extensions :(

[takluyver]

Told you we'd find someone who uses it ;-)

[takluyver]

More seriously: @juliantaylor , what do you do with irunner to test C extensions that can't be done with a normal .py script, or a .ipy script if the need arises?

[juliantaylor]

usually just %timeit stuff and then running it under a profiler (e..g perf), quick and convenient
it can also be done with .ipy scripts, I forgot about these, so I guess I can live without irunner.

[juliantaylor]

now that irunner is gone a while I notice it a lot more that its missing.
I more often than I though just run regular python files with irunner to get the repr output or something nice to paste.

So I must ask again as I didn't get an answer last time why was it removed? Is it hard to maintain?
It was working fine for me in with regular updated git head up until it was removed.
If its not a maintenance burden maybe a little census on the mailing list could be done? be it just to show that I'm weird ;)

[takluyver]

I don't think it was especially hard to maintain, but none of us knew of any good reason to use it, we've not advertised its existence for years, and we're trying to reduce the number of scripts we install (PyColorize went away for a similar reason). We saw it as trimming dead weight, I think.

Feel free to ask on the mailing list, but given that no-one else has complained about its removal so far, I doubt there were many people using it.

I'm still not quite clear on what you were using it for, to be honest.