PLY is now an archived project

[kurtmckee]

PLY was archived on December 21, 2025 [farewell message commit].

It will be necessary to evaluate and choose an alternative implementation.

[kurtmckee]

@michaelmior Let's coordinate the work that needs to be done to recover from this. This is not currently an emergency (it's not like PLY has been pulled from PyPI), but I need to ensure that jsonpath-ng is a healthy project because it's a dependency in some software I maintain.

I'll evaluate some alternatives and update this issue report as I'm able. I anticipate having some availability later next week, but may find additional time this week.