#235 feat: Add runtime deprecation notice Pull request opened by Copilot

pact-standalone

is being deprecated in favour of the Rust-based CLI tools. Users invoking these tools — especially those with automated setups — have no visibility into this fact. Changes • Added a

$stderr.puts

deprecation warning at startup to all six active

.rb

entry point files:

pact-broker

,

pact-message

,

pact-mock-service

,

pact-provider-verifier

,

pact-stub-service

,

pactflow

• Added suppression mechanism via the

PACT_DISABLE_DEPRECATION_WARNINGS=true

environment variable for programmatic/automated use cases • Documented the deprecation warning and suppression mechanism in

README.md

and

packaging/README.md.template

On every invocation, users will now see:

WARN: This CLI is deprecated and no longer receiving updates. We recommend you upgrade to the latest CLI: <https://docs.pact.io/implementation_guides/cli>

To suppress the warning, set:

PACT_DISABLE_DEPRECATION_WARNINGS=true

Writing to

$stderr

keeps the notice cross-platform (the

.rb

files are the shared entry point invoked by both Unix

.sh

and Windows

.bat

wrappers) and avoids polluting stdout, which some wrapper tools parse programmatically. pact-foundation/pact-standalone