Re: deprecating xml-rpc and package.xml 1.0

Gregory Beaver wrote:

Arnaud Limbourg wrote:

Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote:

Arnaud Limbourg wrote:

    
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.

In this context should someone devise a package v1 to v2 migration plan? I actually meant to say "push" instead of "plan".

It is a good idea. I believe PFM would come into play ?

Simpler. run "pear convert" in your package directory, and then rm package.xml and mv package2.xml package.xml

what is the equivalent step if you are using PFM? regards, Lukas