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Author	vstinner
Recipients	martin.panter, ned.deily, ronaldoussoren, serhiy.storchaka, vstinner
Date	2020-01-30.08:09:19
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Message-id	<1580371759.69.0.733810889196.issue39353@roundup.psfhosted.org>
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> Of course I would prefer “crc_hqx” to stay, because we use it at work. I propose to deprecate it because I understood that it was strictly related to binhex4 and hexbin4 protocols. If there is an use case outside these protocols, I'm fine with maintaining it. The first motivation was to drop the binhex module in the long term, I'm less worried about specific binascii functions.

> Of course I would prefer “crc_hqx” to stay, because we use it at work.

I propose to deprecate it because I understood that it was strictly related to binhex4 and hexbin4 protocols. If there is an use case outside these protocols, I'm fine with maintaining it.

The first motivation was to drop the binhex module in the long term, I'm less worried about specific binascii functions.

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