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:
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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.
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