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authorMichael Merickel <michael@merickel.org>2016-12-24 13:53:20 -0600
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Deprecations
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-- The ``pcreate`` script and related scaffolds have been deprecated in favor
- of the popular
- `cookiecutter <https://cookiecutter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>`_ project.
+- The ``pcreate`` script and the core scaffolds (``starter``, ``alchemy`` and
+ ``zodb``) have been deprecated.
+
+ They have been replaced with the decision to embrace the popular
+ `cookiecutter <https://cookiecutter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>`_ project
+ as a best-of-breed project templating solution.
+
+ ``pcreate`` was originally introduced when very few alternatives existed
+ that supported Python 3. Fortunately the situation has improved and
+ with possible tooling support for cookiecutters being discussed by major
+ IDEs, and the simplicity of the jinja2 syntax, it is exciting to embrace
+ the project moving forward!
All of Pyramid's official scaffolds as well as the tutorials have been
ported to cookiecutters: