PJ Eby writes: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:00 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull > <step...@xemacs.org>wrote:
> > What I care about is when I'm using Gorgon, and there's something > > "better" (or worse, "correct") to use in my application. > > Hence my suggestion for an Obsoleted-By field, in which Gorgon would be > able to suggest alternatives. My bad, my precise intention was to follow up on your idea (which, credit where credit is due, I had *not* hit upon independently). I should have made that clear. (I really shouldn't be answering English email at a Japanese-speaking conference, my brain thinks it knows what it's doing but shirazuni 日 本文化が染み込む....) > > It might be a good idea to have a just-like-Amazon > > > > While-This-Package-Is-Great-You-Might-Also-Consider: > > > > field. > > Yeah, that's basically what Obsoleted-By is for. Well, Obsoleted-By is pretty strong language for suggesting possible alternatives. But I suspect that few projects would really want to be suggesting competitors' products *or* their own oldie-but-still-goodie that they'd really like to obsolete ASAP (put an Obsoleted-By line in every Python 2 distribution, anyone? :-) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com