[Bug]: Http logger references the deprecated winstond package

[Dimava]

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http transport, docs, winstond

The problem

I was trying to get something to test HTTP transport and got the recommended by docs winstond package which immediately crashed because of not being compatible with modern node

TypeError: Class constructor Logger cannot be invoked without 'new'
    at exports.Server (\node_modules\winstond\lib\winstond\server.js:15:18)
    at new exports.Server (\node_modules\winstond\lib\winstond\http\index.js:20:19)
    at exports.createServer (\node_modules\winstond\lib\winstond\http\index.js:13:10)

Please either update winstond to a working version or update docs linking to some other thing that can be used to test HTTP transport

What version of Winston presents the issue?

docs, winstond@latest

What version of Node are you using?

v20+

If this worked in a previous version of Winston, which was it?

No response

Minimum Working Example

require('winstond').http.createServer()

Additional information

No response

[DABH]

This is the wrong repo for this issue - https://github.com/winstonjs/winstond would be the right one - but given that no updates have been made to winstond in 13 years, it's safe to say that particular sub-project is not maintained.

I'll probably go ahead and mark that repo as archived so we don't hit issues with this in the future.

[Dimava]

🤦‍♂ I've explained it poorly

My main problem is

winston/docs/transports.md

Line 124 in c69cdb0

The `Http` transport is a generic way to log, query, and stream logs from an arbitrary Http endpoint, preferably [winstond][1]. It takes options that are passed to the node.js `http` or `https` request:

this repo's docs linking a non-working package

Now docs mention an archieved package 😂