Perhaps, before anyone tries to make pip doing something mechanical about deprecations, we should just have the website itself do this sort of redirect? Removing the download would be drastic; giving people an interstitial that says "This package is no longer maintained, please use $X instead" would be very informative.
-glyph > On Apr 5, 2016, at 3:26 PM, Alex Grönholm <alex.gronh...@nextday.fi> wrote: > > You make a valid point. This made me recall something -- there is a > classifier "Development Status :: 7 - Inactive". As a quick fix, pip could be > modified to emit a warning when a distribution containing this classifier is > installed. But the problem seems more social than technical. The author of > the package the OP referred to has not chosen to add any status classifier or > any kind of warning in the description that would notify the user of its > deprecated status. > > 06.04.2016, 01:05, Tres Seaver kirjoitti: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 04/05/2016 04:17 PM, Alex Grönholm wrote: >> >>> I think an ideal solution would be to add a feature to Warehouse that >>> would "redirect" any downloads of a library to another. Though I'm not >>> saying it would be simple. >> Such a feature would be doing a huge disservice: repeatability *matters* >> for package consumers. Unless an already-uploaded package is known to >> contain malware, or the author is under force majeur compulsion >> (governmental / legal injunction), removing a distribution is much worse >> than giving the humans involved flexibility to deal with an issue. >> >> >> Tres. >> - -- =================================================================== >> Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com >> Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v1 >> >> iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJXBDaKAAoJEPKpaDSJE9HYGYsP/AtJGhNFXPXjtUlTVoDHw6oz >> ohzb5js31Dps86V/CQELl4cxFhfPMpPCPxcfA9z/E9B4Wk3HaFTPxOUunZKrbUJA >> 2MguOnsYOjeWCBSlBEOdjCSTHiYse07NRMV4NN+b0mfdnj6VvTk17uY9UW96GTiN >> xigRgysRgN71JnE41ZNL+4qKjvCL/6dYFrga21rdvOGnZrTNUBwP8mbbACrdz9lh >> jeOSVkbWMqKazAXIZB3y7KaByIHIfes5fguBnsjqpgdL9c9r8WsE5nhBCdlkUm8N >> NAiNEpTy+5G5o0NhGz/4AXFtamkVLTGSZhWcUprHOtJUgjzer+b0WWijFcBtcQGY >> Ugbijhotlbx+zI/QPqArqDemU++UhGr+oiI839KfyzV3viZ4MEr8jC/BchM88Jmn >> 8lR3Fyv25Tc2bDTC96hv8A5zcwM08i5FYHlPhW2a96xue5Vl9wZ6rmpRUTtqhErJ >> vwPu/Yps/l1nXzRXPc8NcHTH8daDVIgaNNp8EeDHV+vYJgy066zzzSQ4dTJddWbZ >> mcf6aFQDP50vrloZ81GaeByUJ1xlcVfyODdvpKj350YlqPqyv7y7uMJv026csRax >> l/3DyhChbqzU/be9f6xaGL+KzJU3Xt2L0XY/annNkBWrsbRKISpiiGc+21rNo23P >> EB9Sax3Uoa47h5GWQWH5 >> =CblP >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
