Re: deprecating xml-rpc and package.xml 1.0

On Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 08:5223PM -0500, Gregory Beaver wrote: > As you can see from the stats page I've put up at > http://pear.php.net/~greg/stats/ > we no longer have any significant usage of PEAR 1.3 to download > packages. This is a good sign of the adoption rate of PEAR 1.4.x, and I > think it is time to deprecate package.xml 1.0 and specifically the > xml-rpc server. Deprecation does *not* mean disabling. It means > putting out a big warning that 1 year from now we will turn off the > server, and notify as many sources as possible. Did you read my mind? I was about to propose the same, but with 6 months time to handle instead of a year. The latter is fine for me though. > In particular, we need > to talk to Zend and figure out their who's who app. I think Steph Fox is our contact with regard to this. If needed, I can talk to her. > Comments? This is an important change. Let's go for it. - Martin