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Re: [PEAR-QA] Re: [pear-webmaster] Re: [PEAR-QA] Thought about unmaintained

Klaus Guenther

2005-01-19, 4:19 pm

anatoly techtonik wrote:
> KG> Come to think of it, a package may be maintained but depreciated... And
> KG> another unmaintained but not depreciated. So I guess the best way to
> KG> solve the problem is to simply add a field indicating whether a package
> KG> is maintained or not.
>
> Please provide an example where package is maintained or deprecated?
> To me 'Deprecated' implies 'Unmaintained'. If you have time to report
> bugs and use deprecated package - you can always follow old PEAR
> tradition and contact former developers. It is Ok if you will not
> recieve support either it is deprecated package or unmaintained.

A maintained package that is depreciated will be DB, for example, once
DB2 comes out. Or MDB when MDB2 comes out. Maintained = bugs will be
fixed. Depreciated means there's a better package you should use instead.

Klaus

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