Deprecate Recline views #7078
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Mark Recline as deprecated, mention communnity alternatives and fix some links
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Following up on the deprecation work done in CKAN 2.10 (#7078) this finally removes the venerable Recline-based view plugins from core. Users should use the DataTables view plugin or other more advanced extensions: https://docs.ckan.org/en/2.10/maintaining/data-viewer.html#other-view-plugins
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The Datopian plugin is interesting, but has no tagged release versions. Are we meant to just run from the master branch? That's not acceptable for a production system. The Keitaro plugin is also interesting, but doesn't seem to offer maps. So it isn't really a replacement for Recline. |
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It has served CKAN very well but in 2.10 is time to start saying goodbye to the venerable Recline-based views. Recline hasn't been maintained in many years, and it doesn't even have its own repository now.
The DataTables view is a much more solid replacement for tabular data, and for the functionality that will be lost (generate (crappy) graphs or maps from tabular data) there are more modern alternatives maintained elsewhere (eg from Keitaro or Datopian). The other thing that Recline offered that has no immediate replacement is the ability to preview tabular data not present in the DataStore via the DataProxy service but this has always proven very unreliable and the source of confusion for users, so again I think it's worth deprecating it.
This PR does a bit of cleanup and it mainly includes:
datatables_viewas a default view to be created (if loaded). I didn't add it as default tockan.pluginsas without thedatastoreone (andxloader) it won't work, but happy to discussIt doesn't remove the actual plugins, which we can do later on.