deprecation handling (was About IRC Classes)

Hi Folks: On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 07:07:56PM +0200, Tomas V.V.Cox wrote: > > drop Net_IRC and let SmartIRC where it is. He is planning to reorganize > SmartIRC... That resultant class would become in some months > Net_IRC or Net_IRC2 (will discuss that at its properly moment). I think it's clearest to just leave pacakges named as they are. If old pacakges are deprecated, mark them as such and point to the better package. In terms of tracking deprecation, perhaps it would be good to put a new column in the database's packages table named superceded_by that would contain the name of the new/better package. If that field contains a value, a deprecation warning is printed on the package page and a hyperlink is presented to the improved one. Thanks, --Dan -- T H E A N A L Y S I S A N D S O L U T I O N S C O M P A N Y data intensive web and database programming http://www.AnalysisAndSolutions.com/ 4015 7th Ave #4, Brooklyn NY 11232 v: 718-854-0335 f: 718-854-0409