deprecated zLOG

doc/CHANGES.txt

@@ -22,6 +22,13 @@ Zope Changes
 
    - Collector #1233: port ZOPE_CONFIG patch from Zope 2.7 to Zope 2.8
 
+  after 2.9.0 
+
+    Bugs fixed
+
+      - officially deprecated the zLOG module (to be removed in Zope 2.11).
+        Use the logging module of Python instead.
+
   Zope 2.9.0 (2006/01/09)
 
     Bugs fixed

lib/python/zLOG/__init__.py

@@ -77,6 +77,8 @@ back-end; configuration of the logging module must be handled
 somewhere else.
 
 """
+
+import warnings
 from EventLogger import log_write, log_time, severity_string
 from traceback import format_exception
 
@@ -131,6 +133,13 @@ def LOG(subsystem, severity, summary, detail='', error=None, reraise=None):
                  error is reraised.
 
     """
+
+    warnings.warn('The zLOG package is deprecated and will be removed in '
+                  'Zope 2.11. Use the Python logging module instead.',
+                  DeprecationWarning,
+                  stacklevel=2) 
+
+
     log_write(subsystem, severity, summary, detail, error)
     if reraise and error:
         raise error[0], error[1], error[2]