Deprecation warning

[dandv]

As far as I can tell, when mrt installing a deprecated package, perhaps from inherited codebase, the user has no indication that a package is deprecated. Right now, the only way to check that a package might be deprecated is to look at its README.

Does meteorite/MDG have plans for a "deprecated" flag that would warn on install, and perhaps point to an alternative package, or a resource for more information?

[tmeasday]

My understanding is that packages will be explicitly tied to meteor versions that they have been marked to work with. So deprecation will happen implicitly when an author fails to keep the package up to date with new versions.

We'll find out more at devshop this month I guess :)

[dandv]

Good point. The deprecation use case I had in mind was when an author wants their package to stop being used on purpose, e.g. because a better package has emerged.