<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="-ms-word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">I forget the exact names but there's a range of SQL Server packages that also fit in here. Perhaps I get to hear more complaints about those because of where I work :)<br><br>But you're right, it may be a small enough problem to handle it that way.<br><br>Top-posted from my Windows Phone</div></div><div dir="ltr"><hr><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">From: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="mailto:donald@stufft.io">Donald Stufft</a></span><br><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Sent: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">7/14/2016 17:25</span><br><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">To: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="mailto:steve.dower@python.org">Steve Dower</a></span><br><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Cc: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="mailto:daniel@ddbeck.com">Daniel D. Beck</a>; <a href="mailto:distutils-sig@python.org">distutils-sig</a></span><br><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Re: [Distutils] Outdated packages on pypi</span><br><br></div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jul 14, 2016, at 8:19 PM, Steve Dower <<a href="mailto:steve.dower@python.org">steve.dower@python.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><span style="text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">I'm still keen to find a way to redirect people to useful forks or alternative packages that doesn't require thousands of mentions at conferences for all time ala PIL.</span></div></blockquote></div><br><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I’m not opposed to this but we’ll want to make sure we’re careful about how we do it. PIL is an easy example where the maintainer is gone and there is a community fork of it. But I struggle to come up with very many more examples of this where there is something that is:</div><div><br></div><div>- Popular enough that enough people are tripping over it to make it worth it.</div><div>- There is a clear successor (or successors).</div><div><br></div><div>Off the top of my head I can only really think of PIL, and *maybe* suds. Unless there’s a lot of these maybe all we really need is a policy for when administrators can/will edit the page to direct people towards a different project or a way to add an admin message directing people to another project.</div><div>
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