On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 11:05:41AM -0500, Norm Jacobs wrote:
> On 04/ 6/10 09:57 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> >[email protected] wrote:
> >
> >>The LSARC just put Drools in Solaris last May.  What am I missing here?
> >I am also a bit confused as I remember that the intrgration of "antlr" that
> >happened recently.
> >
> >Why are generic tools first added and soon removed again?
> >
> >Jörg
> >
> The project that these bits were intended to be used by isn't
> integrating, we don't have any identified consumers, and there is no
> identified support.  The specific package that you mention 'antlr'
> is actually antlr 3.0.  We are currently delivering antlr 2.7.7 and
> 3.0.  Antlr 2.7 will remain for the time being since it is required
> to build some other bits that don't appear to have any consumer or
> support, but are not part of this case.

It would be nice if removal of EOL'ed FOSS was implemented as "move from
/release to /contrib".  I understand that how easy that is to pull off
depends on which consolidation the components being removed live in, so
I'd expect that often i-teams would balk at moving removed items to
/contrib.  Also, /contrib is getting populated quite independently of
the ARC, thus another legitimate answer from i-teams could be that "hey,
/contrib is someone else's problem, and we might even move these pkgs
there, but we won't commit to it".  Still, I recommend that i-teams just
move FOSS to /contrib, instead of simply removing it, whenever it makes
sense.

Nico
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