[Distutils] How to deprecate a python package

Alex Grönholm alex.gronholm at nextday.fi
Tue Apr 5 19:36:36 EDT 2016


You can already modify the description and add the "Development Status 
:: 7 - Inactive" classifier. It would be really nice to filter these out 
of search results though.

06.04.2016, 02:32, Greg Ewing kirjoitti:
> Geoffrey Spear wrote:
>> I don't have an answer to your actual question, but I'd not advocate 
>> people removing packages; we don't want a npm situation here. :(
>
> Perhaps there should be a way of marking a package as
> deprecated on PyPI, so that it shows a big red warning
> flag?
>



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