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maxlath / wikibase-cli

read and edit a Wikibase instance from the command line
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Why dont you delete wikidata-cli npm? #147

Closed yuiseki closed 3 years ago

yuiseki commented 3 years ago

Thank you for your very useful project, wikibase-cli. We ran into the problem of installing the old wikidata-cli by mistake and confused. So How about removing the old wikidata-cli npm?

https://www.npmjs.com/package/wikidata-cli

maxlath commented 3 years ago

I would be against removing it from npm as, if it was possible (which I'm not certain of), it would open the possibility for squatting: a new possibly malicious project reusing the name and being installed by users trusting this package. Instead, I turned wikidata-cli into an empty shell with a message to install wikibase-cli instead and published it as a new major version, so that new projects running npm install wikidata-cli get it, but not old projects using an earlier version: should be enough to avoid the confusion right?