How to use Obsoletes: The author of B decides A is obsolete. A releases an empty version of itself that Requires: B B Obsoletes: A The package manager says "These packages are obsolete: A". Would you like to remove them? User says "OK". On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 2:54 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@xemacs.org>wrote:
PJ Eby writes:
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:00 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull < stephen@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/dholth%40gmail.com