Published August 17, 2024 | Version v1
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ICSE 2025 Artifact for "An Empirical Study on Package-Level Deprecation in Python Ecosystem"

Authors/Creators

  • 1. ROR icon Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
  • 2. ROR icon Microsoft Research Asia (China)

Description

Artifact

This artifact includes the source code and data needed to reproduce the results of our paper.

Files

  • inactive_task: This folder contains the dataset we collected, including:
    • A list of all packages in PyPI as of 2023.1.9 in all_package.json
    • A list of halted packages in halted_packages.pkl
    • A list of packages that haven't received any commit for a long time in long_time_no_commit.json
    • A list of inactive packages and their corresponding GitHub repositories in inactive_pkg_repo_list.json
    • A mapping of packages to their corresponding GitHub links in pgk2url.json
    • A dataset with details in deprecation_dataset/, which includes rationales, alternative solutions, and package characteristics (RQ1). Click [here](inactive_task/deprecation_dataset/README.md) for more details.
  • ghd_dataset: This folder contains the dependency information for PyPI, which we used to build the dependency network. Please unzip the file before use.
  • down_deps: The folder contains scripts to process our data, including
    • similar_brothers: A script to find similar brother packages of deprecated packages.
    • delta_of_downdeps.py: A script that calculates the gain of downstream dependencies.
  • regression: This folder contains scripts for the models that estimate the effect of deprecation announcements, which can be used to reproduce the results of RQ2.
  • questionnaire_data: The folder includes the questionnaire prototype and responses (RQ3, 4). Click [here](./questionnaire_data/README.md) for more details.

Files

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