The author from python-onedrive python-onedrive warns that his library is achrived and obsoleted by official library from microsoft and refers to its git repo sdk

What perplexes me is that the archived obsoleted library is being maintained while the official repo is dead since 6 years ago. What's going on?

Thanks.

CodePudding user response：

The python-onedrive library was depreciated in 2015 in this commit.

The commits from July 2021 are typo fixes, which is why it appears to be actively maintained.

CodePudding user response：

It appears the project was written before Microsoft authored their own SDK that solves the goal the creator originally had - namely that there was no Python SDK for OneDrive. Looking at the commit history, there's been no meaningful changes in six years. The only changes were typos in the documentation, which was cleaned up for long-term archival purposes.

The author probably came to the conclusion that it's not worth maintaining a parallel SDK when an official one exists, which in theory should be maintained by the owner of OneDrive. Now, as to why Microsoft has not updated that SDK in six years is another issue entirely. There have been pull requests made to improve that library, but it's likely someone responsible for maintaining the repo needs to be contacted.