On Mar 19, 2018, at 10:44, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > There are a few pull requests that are pretty old and which I think > are, de facto, stuck. I'd like to get some feedback about what to do > about them. > > If we can close these three, we will have no PRs older than six months > active in the system, which I think is a win. > > 1: wine*: add 64-bit support > https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/442 > Apr 22, 2017 (yes, almost a year old) > > This PR seems to be stuck on the fact that Wine de facto needs a 64 > bit version to be useful in a modern context,
Says who? > but that macOS is likely > permanently ABI incompatible with Wine 64. > > My proposal here is that we close the PR, and that we remove the Wine > port as being unmaintainable going forward. The wine ports work fine; I plan to keep them indefinitely, even if they stop working in a future version of macOS that can't run 32-bit programs, since they still work on older versions of macOS. > 2: mosh: Switch to protobuf3-cpp > https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/690 > Aug 17, 2017 > > Zero King correctly notes in the course of the PR's comment thread > that protobuf3-cpp conflicts with protobuf-cpp, so all protobuf-cpp > using ports probably should be migrated. > > This seems entirely straightforward to do (I made the needed changes > in my own git repo in a couple of minutes) but rather difficult to > test. To close this out, we probably need some volunteer who is in a > position to test such an update. I would prefer that the bug that protobuf-cpp and protobuf3-cpp install to the same place is fixed first: https://trac.macports.org/ticket/56102 Then there's no reason why the ports can't be updated individually as time permits.
