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My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it

341 points · 107 comments · jakeasmith

  1. laruss5 · · focus · HN ↗
    For a package with that kind of install base, is there a final release that prints the migration options in a deprecation notice? People will find it years from now through old Stack Overflow answers.
    1. TimWolla · · focus · HN ↗
      The package is marked as abandoned on Packagist [1]

      > This package is abandoned and no longer maintained. No replacement package was suggested.

      Both adding it as a dependency using composer and installing it from a lockfile results in:

          $ composer require jakeasmith/http_build_url
    […]
    Package jakeasmith/http_build_url is abandoned, you should avoid using it. No replacement was suggested.
    […]
    $ rm -r vendor/
    $ composer install
    […]
      - Installing jakeasmith/http_build_url (1.0.2): Extracting archive
    Package jakeasmith/http_build_url is abandoned, you should avoid using it. No replacement was suggested.
    […]
      [1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;packagist.org&#x2F;packages&#x2F;jakeasmith&#x2F;http_build_url" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;packagist.org&#x2F;packages&#x2F;jakeasmith&#x2F;http_build_url
      1. Timwi · · focus · HN ↗
        It would have been nice if a replacement had been suggested.
        1. pmlnr · · focus · HN ↗
          Read the linked entry.
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