Merge two platform-specific packages into a universal one

Rhino Developer Yak
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My plugin (Pancake) used to have separate YAK packages for Windows and macos, due to some limitations about WinForm. Recently I ported everything onto Eto and there would be one universal YAK package again.

I wonder the next step. Can I just remove the old two packages from YAK server and upload the new universal package, or select one package as “main package” and remove platform-specific information from it?

The objective is all existing Win/Mac users using the old version can update to the new, universal version smoothly.

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You can yank old packages, they will still be available but not showing in Package Manager

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Typically you would leave the old packages alone and publish a new yak package with a higher version number than your old packages. This will show that an update is available in Rhino’s package manager.

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You don’t do this for the typical case up providing updated packages.

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@stevebaer do you mean that once someone has installed a package and you yank that version that this person cannot install an update smoothly?

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No, the update should still be smooth.

Yank is intended as a last resort for marking a specific version of a package as no longer available in Rhino’s package manager. For example if you publish a package and find out an hour after publishing that it crashes on everyone else’s computer, then making that package no longer available would probably be a good thing.

Yank is version specific, other versions of your package will still be available on the package manager.

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Okay clear. I used it to remove expired versions so I guess that is another use case.