Deprecating Shutdown Providers

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Closed atymic closed 5 years ago

atymic commented 5 years ago

Since the provider has been shut down for over a year, should we consider deprecating it? http://freegeoip.net/shutdown

Maybe it would be a good idea to come up with a policy for handling provider shutdowns.

Possible steps:

Mark packagist package as abandoned
adding @deprecated annotations to the class & constructor (which will warn people using IDEs)
Remove provider from main README
Update provider README to indicate it's deprecation
Skip/Remove tests (maybe)?

atymic commented 5 years ago

Also seems that the GeoIps Provider has shut down as well.

jbelien commented 5 years ago

Seems like a good idea to "clean" the providers that can't be used anymore.

If some providers can be replaced by another one, we should state it (like Mapzen > GeocodeEarth, FreeGeoIp > Ipstack).

What do you think about this @willdurand @Nyholm ? :)

atymic commented 5 years ago

If some providers can be replaced by another one, we should state it (like Mapzen > GeocodeEarth, FreeGeoIp > Ipstack).

Good idea. Might be a good idea to add that in the README of the deprecated package.

atymic commented 5 years ago

I have opened a PR in #972 😄