[selenium-developers] PhantomJS development halted and project to be archived

[David Burns]

Hi All,

I saw this[1] and we should probably think about actively removing support
for phantomjs in a few versions time. I know we set it to deprecated but
now we see about removing it properly.

David

[1] https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/issues/15344

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[Paul Hammant]

Agree, and at the very least print a banner in order to reduce emails and
issues logged.


-ph

[Titus Fortner]

Alexei actually removed all support from Ruby bindings last year by
removing it from our build process, and I'm guessing from other
bindings as well. Python might be one of the few that actually still
allows it? :)

Post by Paul Hammant
Agree, and at the very least print a banner in order to reduce emails and
issues logged.
-ph
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[Simon Stewart]

It's been removed from the Java tree for a long time. Looking at the code,
it seems as if the last hold out where there's a lot of support is .Net,
where we should mark it as obsolete.

End of an era....

Simon

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Post by David Burns
Hi All,
I saw this[1] and we should probably think about actively removing support
for phantomjs in a few versions time. I know we set it to deprecated but
now we see about removing it properly.
David
[1] https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/issues/15344
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[David Burns]

We still have desired capabilities, and phantomjs start up code, in all the
languages from a quick grep of the tree. We should, at some point see about
removing that code and the extra code to go with it saying if people want
to still use it they can use previous versions.

David

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Post by Simon Stewart
It's been removed from the Java tree for a long time. Looking at the code,
it seems as if the last hold out where there's a lot of support is .Net,
where we should mark it as obsolete.
End of an era....
Simon

Post by David Burns
Hi All,
I saw this[1] and we should probably think about actively removing
support for phantomjs in a few versions time. I know we set it to
deprecated but now we see about removing it properly.
David
[1] https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/issues/15344
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[Diego Fernando Molina]

We also stopped releasing the docker-selenium image that had PhantomJS more
than 2 months ago.

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Post by David Burns
We still have desired capabilities, and phantomjs start up code, in all
the languages from a quick grep of the tree. We should, at some point see
about removing that code and the extra code to go with it saying if people
want to still use it they can use previous versions.
David
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Post by Simon Stewart
It's been removed from the Java tree for a long time. Looking at the
code, it seems as if the last hold out where there's a lot of support is
.Net, where we should mark it as obsolete.
End of an era....
Simon
On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 4:21 AM, David Burns <

Post by David Burns
Hi All,
I saw this[1] and we should probably think about actively removing
support for phantomjs in a few versions time. I know we set it to
deprecated but now we see about removing it properly.
David
[1] https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/issues/15344
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[Simon Stewart]

The development of the PhantomJS support shifted from the java bindings a
while ago. It's been a separate thing for a while. Having said that, the
capability is still there in the java tree, and marked as deprecated, but
that's largely because I'm deeply conservative about removing things. In
4.0, I plan on deleting it.

It looks like the scaffolding is still there for Ruby, Python, and .Net.

The question we have to answer is: does the fact that phantomjs is no
longer actively developed mean that people have stopped using it? And do we
want those people to stop updating their selenium installations once we
drop support?

Simon

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Post by David Burns
We still have desired capabilities, and phantomjs start up code, in all
the languages from a quick grep of the tree. We should, at some point see
about removing that code and the extra code to go with it saying if people
want to still use it they can use previous versions.
David
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Post by Simon Stewart
It's been removed from the Java tree for a long time. Looking at the
code, it seems as if the last hold out where there's a lot of support is
.Net, where we should mark it as obsolete.
End of an era....
Simon
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Post by David Burns
Hi All,
I saw this[1] and we should probably think about actively removing
support for phantomjs in a few versions time. I know we set it to
deprecated but now we see about removing it properly.
David
[1] https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/issues/15344
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[Jim Evans]

I’ve a local change that I need to push that marks it obsolete (throws a compiler warning) in .NET. I’ll remove it, probably in 4.1. Or rather, concurrent with a 4.x release that removes a ton of legacy (OSS protocol dialect) code.

[Jason Leyba]

Granted, I'm probably more aggressive than most with removing things, but I
really so no reason to continue supporting PhantomJS. Both Chrome and
Firefox can be run headless now, so there's a clearly defined migration
path for users that want headless testing. If they want to continue using
PhantomJS, they can continue using an older version of Selenium.

Post by Jim Evans
I’ve a local change that I need to push that marks it obsolete (throws a
compiler warning) in .NET. I’ll remove it, probably in 4.1. Or rather,
concurrent with a 4.x release that removes a ton of legacy (OSS protocol
dialect) code.
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