My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it
jakeasmith.com85 points by jakeasmith a day ago
85 points by jakeasmith a day ago
There is nothing as permanent as a temporary fix that works.
Author here, happy to answer any questions. I never imagined a polyfill for http_build_url would gain so much traction. After 12 years, deprecating it feels like the right move, especially given the new options from the community and PHP itself.
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.
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 This package is abandoned and no longer maintained.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.
[…]
We used to work together at AOL. Glad to see you on here; I hope you're doing great!
Love you kept it alive this long
It hasn't been updated in 11 years. Not sure I'd call that "keeping it alive".
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