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PyPDF4 is dead

Open MartinThoma opened this issue 2 years ago • 6 comments

PyPDF4 is dead:

  • Last release on PyPI: 2018
  • Last commit in this repo: 2020
  • Last response to an issue: ... I couldn't find any

I suggest to do one of the following:

  • a) Delete it from PyPI + delete this repository
  • b) Add a note at the top of the README that the project is no longer active + add the trove classifier Development Status :: 7 - Inactive + make a "final" release on PyPI + Archive the github repository

MartinThoma avatar Mar 30 '22 07:03 MartinThoma

Agreed. I would prefer to see development focussed on PyPDF2 and there is an issue discussing its future here: https://github.com/mstamy2/PyPDF2/issues/657

Joshua-IRT avatar Mar 30 '22 07:03 Joshua-IRT

I've produced a fork with new features/corrections. I did not had time yet to publish it further. What's your opinion about it ? https://github.com/pubpub-zz/PyPDF4

pubpub-zz avatar Mar 30 '22 18:03 pubpub-zz

It's awesome when people like you put their time into such projects!

We have a couple of pdf libraries already and I have to think about xkcd: image

I would like it a lot more if we had less pdf projects with a bigger community behind them

MartinThoma avatar Mar 30 '22 19:03 MartinThoma

It's awesome when people like you put their time into such projects!

We have a couple of pdf libraries already and I have to think about xkcd: image

I would like it a lot more if we had less pdf projects with a bigger community behind them

pyPdf4 was the most advanced/active mid 20, this is why I worked on. My 'Fork' is a set of fixes/improvement,I've proposed as contribution to @claird,like as some other did. You're proposal to delete this fork which. If you are willing to help all of us to keep alive pypdf4, I will be personnally very happy 😄

pubpub-zz avatar Mar 30 '22 19:03 pubpub-zz

PyPDF2 is back!

I've just got the permissions on https://github.com/mstamy2/PyPDF2 and on pypi for PyPDF2.

I would love if we could unite the various pdf packages and build something great together

Some issues you might be interested in:

  • https://github.com/mstamy2/PyPDF2/issues/657
  • https://github.com/mstamy2/PyPDF2/issues/658
  • https://github.com/mstamy2/PyPDF2/issues/659

I'm also thinking about moving the projects in the github organization https://github.com/py-pdf. That could especially be interesting if we want to merge PyPDF2 / pypdf3 into one project in the long run.

MartinThoma avatar Apr 05 '22 22:04 MartinThoma

My 2 cents, I would really hate to see this repo/forked deleted. If someone is relying on it deleting it and forcing people to update working code to now work with PyPDF2 is a needless overhead. I'm grateful to all the forks for the contributions made (in spite of the difficulty in finding the one true PDF lib ;)) and I'm really happy to hear @MartinThoma is organizing a sustainable maintained version of PyPDF.

My preference would be to archive this repo, ideally with a readme update. It's clearly marked as a fork of PyPDF2 so even if it is not archived/updated it is easy for people to discover the upstream maintained version :-)

clach04 avatar Apr 09 '22 18:04 clach04