- Using the ``pyramid.view.bfg_view`` alias for ``pyramid.view.view_config``

  (a backwards compatibility shim) now issues a deprecation warning.

3 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 416de00f9..8df963aac 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -18,6 +18,12 @@ Documentation
 - Fix deprecated example showing ``chameleon_zpt`` API call in testing
   narrative chapter.
 
+Deprecations
+-------------
+
+- Using the ``pyramid.view.bfg_view`` alias for ``pyramid.view.view_config``
+  (a backwards compatibility shim) now issues a deprecation warning.
+
 Backwards Incompatibilities
 ---------------------------
 
diff --git a/TODO.txt b/TODO.txt
index 09ca50585..5b78e2a74 100644
--- a/TODO.txt
+++ b/TODO.txt
@@ -22,8 +22,6 @@ Must-Have (before 1.0)
 - Add docs for ``route_path`` and ``route_url``, etc to Request API docs (see
   also https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid/issues#issue/19).
 
-- Deprecate ``@bfg_view``.
-
 - Reversing (context, request) in function view callable arglist produces
   incomprehensible traceback::
 
diff --git a/pyramid/view.py b/pyramid/view.py
index 310e6d58f..10a0b7b60 100644
--- a/pyramid/view.py
+++ b/pyramid/view.py
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ if hasattr(mimetypes, 'init'):
 import venusian
 
 from zope.interface import providedBy
+from zope.deprecation import deprecated
 
 from pyramid.interfaces import IRoutesMapper
 from pyramid.interfaces import IView
@@ -415,6 +416,12 @@ class view_config(object):
 
 bfg_view = view_config # permanent b/c
 
+deprecated(
+    'bfg_view',
+    'pyramid.view.bfg_view is deprecated as of Pyramid 1.0.  Use '
+    'pyramid.view.view_config instead (API-compat, simple '
+    'rename).')
+
 def default_exceptionresponse_view(context, request):
     if not isinstance(context, Exception):
         # backwards compat for an exception response view registered via