Re: deprecating xml-rpc and package.xml 1.0

Martin Jansen wrote: > 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. Sounds reasonnable. Arnaud.