Deprecate old packages and hide them from the extension manager

[dlqqq]

Description

Very early on in the project, each provider was intended to live in a separate AI module package, such as jupyter_ai_chatgpt or jupyter_ai_dalle. Of course, as the list of models we wanted to support grew rapidly, we found this to be too difficult to sustain, and decided that the core jupyter_ai package should, by default, provide all the language models we determined to be usable and compatible with Jupyter AI.

There are 4 old packages:

• PyPi:
  • jupyter_ai_chatgpt
  • jupyter_ai_dalle
• NPM:
  • @jupyter-ai/chatgpt
  • @jupyter-ai/dalle

Next steps

• Deprecate old packages on PyPi
• Deprecate old packages on NPM
• Hide old packages from the extension manager

[krassowski]

Coming here from jupyterlab/jupyterlab#17266 where @dlqqq posted:

We do have an existing issue for this, but I haven't been able to work on it. I don't know how to remove a package from PyPI.

If you're interested, I can assign this issue to you and add your PyPI account to Jupyter AI packages. I've moved this issue to the "v3.0.0" milestone for now so it doesn't get forgotten.

I answered:

I think archival would be sufficient for now, it is generally recommended over removal - see https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2025-01-30-archival/

I want to add that jupyter-ai packages should ideally be placed under Jupyter account (https://pypi.org/org/jupyter/) rather than published by a single maintainer. I will open a new issue to track this.