Deprecate

[sindresorhus]

This plugin should be deprecated as the usage is awkward and it's not really a conforming gulp plugin. There's are lots of node modules that can do the same in a less awkward matter.

@contra @phated

[yocontra]

I agree, the only case though is if you want to pipe to rimraf as a part of a pipeline, for example you gulp.src('src.tar.gz').pipe(gulp.dest('dest')).pipe(rimraf()) to essentially mv a file

[robrich]

If you want to move a file, shell commands seems a lighter weight way to do
it.

What other tools are better suited to deleting some but not all files from
a dir?

[sindresorhus]

@robrich Eg. del supports multiple globbing patterns.

So:

del(['tmp/*.js', '!tmp/unicorn.js'], cb);

[robrich]

Cool -- del combines globbing and rimraf.

I'm good with this. gulp-shell, gulp-script, gulp-run, and gulp-clean are already blacklisted. I think we'll need a recipe to show del in action (though the README script goes a long way towards this). All else being equal, recipes and plugins should be searchable via gulpjs.com/plugins as I've seen many ask questions answered by recipes (e.g. yet another "remove gulp-browserify" thread.)

[sindresorhus]

I think we'll need a recipe to show del in action

Yes, I've promised @contra to do one.

All else being equal, recipes and plugins should be searchable via gulpjs.com/plugins as I've seen many ask questions answered by recipes (e.g. yet another "remove gulp-browserify" thread.)

I agree, but lets discuss that on the plugins tracker.

[sindresorhus]

ping @robrich

There's now a gulp recipe for using del: https://github.com/gulpjs/gulp/blob/master/docs/recipes/delete-files-folder.md

[sindresorhus]

ping

[robrich]

Ack

[robrich]

The recipe looks awesome, this plugin is now also blacklisted. Is there more to do?

[sindresorhus]

Just change the repo/readme description to "[deprecated] rimraf plugin for gulp" and link to the recipe.

[phated]

Also https://www.npmjs.org/doc/cli/npm-deprecate.html