On Dec 28, 2007 3:12 AM, Martin Costabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Charles Lepple wrote:
> > It looks like we had a sdcc package way back when (10.2 era). Does
> > anyone remember what happened to it? I looked through some of the
> > tracker items, but they seem to be prior to when it disappeared.
>
> It seems it did not survive the passage from 10.2-gcc3 to 10.3. Probably
> a combination of maintainer absence and upstream no-release policy. They
> didn't make any release between 2001 and 2004. After that, perhaps lack
> of demand.

Good point about "lack of demand".

After I wrote the initial email, I poked around to see how other
people were packaging it, and noted the following:

  * nothing really depends on it, so it's not as useful as, say,
packaging a library in Fink
  * the SDCC sf.net site now provides universal binaries for OS X,
despite it not being listed as a "supported platform" on some of their
documentation pages
  * Debian has categorized it as "non-free" due to conflicting
licenses for some of the components.

We could probably re-add the package with a License: Restrictive
field, but I don't think it's worth the effort.

So in case anyone runs across this after searching for SDCC in Fink,
here's a link directly to the SF.net download page:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=599

-- 
- Charles Lepple

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