Juliahub packages feature request: detect and mark deprecated or archived packages

nsajko
Tue, 11 Apr 2023 23:29:22 +0000
General Usage

1. Perhaps there should be a feature to mark your package as deprecated on Juliahub?

2. Once a package’s source code repository get’s archived, I think it would make sense for this fact to be prominently displayed on Juliahub, including in the search results.

For example, searching for JET includes the JETTest result, whose Github repo is archived, but one only finds this out once on Github: JuliaHub

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Procedures for package renaming, deletion and deprecation General Usage

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