From 6fe1c307c7d19edca34b522ed6912bf4b620289c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin Thoma Date: Tue, 2 May 2023 23:43:41 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] DOC: Clarify that PyPDF2 is dead (#1827) --- docs/meta/comparisons.md | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/meta/comparisons.md b/docs/meta/comparisons.md index 9c7ddc2f5..ccf04134c 100644 --- a/docs/meta/comparisons.md +++ b/docs/meta/comparisons.md @@ -38,8 +38,10 @@ As pypdf is free software, there were attempts to fork it and continue the development. PyPDF3 was first released in 2018 and still receives updates. PyPDF4 has only one release from 2018. -I, Martin Thoma, the current maintainer of pypdf, hope that we can -bring the community back to one path of development. Let's see. +I (Martin Thoma, the current maintainer of pypdf and PyPDF2), hope that we can +bring the community back to one path of development. I deprecated PyPDF2 in +favor of pypdf already and pypdf has now more features and a cleaner interface +than PyPDF2. See [history of pypdf](history.md). [free]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software [PyMuPDF]: https://pypi.org/project/PyMuPDF/