Post #145

Hi all. We have decided to deprecate the python-telegram-bot-raw library and no longer provide updates for it. In Februrary 2021, we introduced the library python-telegram-bot-raw that provides the telegram module without telegram.ext. Back then, we felt this to be right thing to do since the rather new v13 had introduced additional required dependencies for the JobQueue. Since then, v20 has seen the light of day. With v20, python-telegram-bot only has a single required dependency, httpx, for the networking backend. All other dependencies for opt-in functionality of telegram.ext are purely optional. Moreover, according to the numbers that we are aware of ([1], [2], [3], [4]), the python-telegram-bot-raw library never gained a considerable user base compared to python-telegram-bot. Since maintaining python-telegram-bot-raw still consumes some resources and is currently also hindering the modernization of PTBs packaging setup, we have therefore made this decision. The next release of PTB will add a corresponding warning to python-telegram-bot-raw. This will be the last update for python-telegram-bot-raw. What does this mean to you? Almost nothing. All you have to do is remove that trailing -raw from your requirements file. That's it. No code changes are necessary, since python-telegram-bot-raw is a subset of python-telegram-bot. No additional dependencies will be installed. Thank you for your understanding and your continued usage and support of the python-telegram-bot library. Your PTB Developer Team