[Python-Dev] Keyword meanings [was: Accept just PEP-0426] (original) (raw)

Daniel Holth dholth at gmail.com
Mon Dec 3 20:43:48 CET 2012

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The author of B decides A is obsolete.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 at xemacs.org>wrote:

PJ Eby writes: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:00 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <_ _stephen at 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? :-)

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