On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 11:35:15PM +1000, Joshua Root <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sean DALY wrote: > > So if it is possible to keep apg around, please do, I use it all the time > > and it performs its job very well with no bugs I have ever encountered > > The danger is not that it will be removed just for being old, but that > it will one day start failing to build with the latest developer tools > (or the latest version of cracklib). Then someone will look at it, see > that there is no upstream maintainer, and wonder if it's worth debugging > the problem and then maintaining a patch set forever. > > The best way to prevent a port from being removed in those circumstances > is to volunteer to do that repair and maintenance work on it. > > Do note that there are several other password generation utilities > available through MacPorts; maybe one of them would serve your purposes. > The ones I found with a quick search are: makepasswd, mkpwd, passogva, > pwgen, secpwgen, sf-pwgen > > - Josh Not a command line tool but but https://www.rempe.us/diceware/#eff is great. cheers, raf
