On 24.01.2024 15:59, Jeroen Ooms wrote:
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 3:51 PM Uwe Ligges
<lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
Dear package developers,
the CRAN team (and Professor Ripley in particular) has been the defacto
maintainer of CRAN package 'XML'.
Our hope was that maintainers of packages depending on XML will migrate
to other packages for reading XML structures. This has not happened and
we still see dozens of strong dependencies on XML.
How is this hope communicated? Many R users assume that XML package is
in great shape and the preferable choice because it is maintained by
the CRAN team and r-core members.
Perhaps one could follow the precedent from the rgdal retirement, and
set a deadline.
One way to communicate this effectively would be by introducing a
formal deprecation field in the package description. This could then
be displayed on the XML CRAN html page, and when loading the package
interactively. Other packages that import such a deprecated package
could be given a CMD check warning.
Sure, the new maintainer may do all these things.
Best,
Uwe Ligges
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