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. ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
