Deprecate GBIFResultsReader

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🐍 A Python package to read Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A) files.

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Deprecate GBIFResultsReader #55

Open niconoe opened 8 years ago

niconoe commented 8 years ago

Since it's a moving, unstandardized target.

We have to make it easy to use DwCAReader for features currently in GBIFResultsReader.

We have also to clearly document this deprecation/removal cycle.

niconoe commented 7 years ago

As of March 2017:

source_metadata features (the most important) have been moved to DwCAReader
rights/citations properties have not, but the doc is updated in order to show how to easily access them

niconoe commented 7 years ago

The doc aslo states it's deprecated.

Next step: remove?

tucotuco commented 7 years ago

I think it would be clean to remove it and better for maintenance.

niconoe commented 7 years ago

I think so!

So far, it's still working, but marked as "deprecated" in the doc, and the documentation in general has been updated to show the "new way". My idea is therefore to let it like this for a few months, then to simply remove it, for cleanliness and maintenance, as you suggested!

Does that sound like a good plan? Do you have any other suggestion?