Re: [pear-webmaster] Re: [PEAR-QA] Thought about unmaintained package (Net_IRC in this case)

On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 06:01:09PM +0100, Martin Jansen wrote: > > Care to give me a hint? (I have some vague memento, but want to make > sure that we are talking about the same.) Back in June you and I discussed this off list in a thread named "a few things." It contained, in part: vvvvvv Daniel Convissor wrote: > 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. Your thoughts? If you agree, > here's the SQL needed to implement it: I had something similar in mind, but I'd suggest we add another field like "deprecated_since", which contains the date/time when the package was marked as deprecated. ^^^^^^ --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