[Docutils-develop] Re: suggestion for publisher functions interface

[Felix W. <Fel...@gm...>]

Felix Wiemann wrote:

> Martin Blais wrote:
>
>> the publisher functions have lots of parameters, [...] how about
>> removing the *_name variants and branching on the type of `reader`,
>> `writer` and `parser` in the Publisher, i.e. if it's a string, look up
>> the component by name, otherwise expect (and assert) that it's an
>> instance of the appropriate component?
>
> +1

Oh, the *_name variants shouldn't be removed immediately but kept for
compatibility.  I'd suggest printing a deprecation warning.

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