Remove temporary version of Segment Integrations

[f2prateek]

The pods here were published as alpha releases to be able to test them out. We're switching to a different versioning scheme, and starting from 1.0.0 instead.

The only reason to delete these is so that they don't show up as the latest in the search results and confuse consumers.

https://cloudup.com/cMgUoJb-44F

I'm unsure if we'd have to delete these from CocoaPods trunk as well.

[f2prateek]

It seems that I would have to delete these from trunk since that's what the website uses. Is there a clear path for this? I see few relevant work (e.g https://github.com/CocoaPods/trunk.cocoapods.org/pull/144/files) but unsure if there is anything available currently.

[f2prateek]

if it's easier, we can delete these podspecs from here and trunk entirely (instead of just these specific versions) and I can republish the correct releases.

[orta]

Currently we've been slowly building out the ability to delete pods, but it's a work in progress. I've poked some people about it.

The only tool we currently have in our disposal makes them unusable in the future which is probably something you don't want. For now I'd recommend pushing a new version with a deprecated_in_favor_of flag that points to Analytics. Given that these are all alpha releases, CocoaPods would resolve to 1.0.0 instead of 7.2.0-alpha without someone specifically stating the version.

[f2prateek]

For now I'd recommend pushing a new version with a deprecated_in_favor_of flag that points to Analytics

Could you clarify what you mean by that? From what I can tell, I only deprecate the pod entirely, not a specific version.

e.g. I released a pod "Segment-Mixpanel" with the version 2.9.0-alpha. I've released a stable version 1.0.0. I want to deprecate/delete the 2.9.0-alpha release so that the latest version on the website is shown as 1.0.0 and not 2.9.0-alpha (https://cocoapods.org/pods/Segment-Mixpanel).

You're right in that the normal dependency resolution picks up 1.0.0 of "Segment-Mixpanel", but the website shows 2.9.0-alpha. Maybe I should raise in the cocoadocs.org repo? CocoaDocs does seem to do the expected thing and redirect http://cocoadocs.org/docsets/Segment-Mixpanel/ to 1.0.0.

[floere]

@f2prateek Hi Prateek – would you mind reraising this in a short issue (referencing this one) on the search engine repo (that drives results on cocoapods.org)? -> https://github.com/CocoaPods/search.cocoapods.org Thanks!
It appears your case is that you only have -alpha version pods and you'd like to switch to release versions. But you'd like the search results to then show the release version, right? (You are basically writing this in the first entry – just double checking if that's still where you are at)

[f2prateek]

Done! I think we can close this issue, since the pods don't really need to be deleted if the website will be able to show the latest stable release.

[floere]

@f2prateek I agree. For now I'll close this.