Deprecate missing module-level functions (like semver.compare, semver.match, ...)

Situation

We deprecated most of our module-level functions, but it seems, I forgot semver.match.

Proposal

I assume, this function should also be added to the list of deprecated function. It also should be moved to the semver.VersionInfo class.

@python-semver/reviewers Any objections?

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There are some other module-level functions:

• semver.compare
• semver.max_ver
• semver.min_ver

@gsakkis: What should we do with these? Deprecate them too and move them to the semver.VersionInfo class?

[scls19fr]

No objection. Python is not Julia. So let’s prefer methods instead over functions.

[Askaholic]

As someone who contributes to a project that uses this library I have to say that I disagree with these deprecations. Replacing semver.compare(version1, version2) with semver.VersionInfo.parse(version1).compare(version2) is just an ugly solution. The first one is clean, easy to read and easy to understand. The second one is ugly, and unnecessarily verbose.

I think your refactor to use VersionInfo under the hood is a great solution, but I don’t see why the compare convenience function needs to become deprecated in the process. I would guess that most use cases of this library are fairly simple, as is the case for my project, and for those use cases semver.compare is objectively better.

Let me counter @scls19fr 's comment with this:

Python is not Java. You do not need to make everything a class.