Re:Python 2.7.18, the last release of Python 2
by toyg on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @05:20AM
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One issue the ecosystem currently has, really (and its not the only one, I believe it's difficult almost everywhere), is that tracking dependency-rot is hard. Unless something breaks outright, you'll never know if a library has been abandoned; and manually checking dozens of github/gitlab repos is expensive and tedious.
Pypi has an api (https://pypi.org/pypi/<pkg-name>/json) that can be leveraged to implement alerts like "this pkg last released 5 years ago, it might be dead!". I guess that's what the "security" package uses already. It would be cool if they added an option to report on this sort of thing.
Pypi has an api (https://pypi.org/pypi/<pkg-name>/json) that can be leveraged to implement alerts like "this pkg last released 5 years ago, it might be dead!". I guess that's what the "security" package uses already. It would be cool if they added an option to report on this sort of thing.