On 2026-10-11, Anthony J. Bentley wrote:
> Lucas de Sena writes:
> > - prboom+ is not maintained/developed anymore.
> > - the last, final maintenance version, 2.6.66, is the last and final.
> > - our port is and old version, 2.5.1.4, before development moved to github.
> > - dsda-doom is its "spiritual successor", as announced upstream.
> > Our options are:
> > 1. Remove games/prboom-plus, make it install games/dsda-doom instead
> > (that's what debian did).
> > 2. Update games/prboom-plus to final v2.6.66; never touch it again.
> > 3. Port PrBoomX, yet another fork of PrBoom+; keep three comfusingly
> > homonymous ports: games/prboom{,-plus,x}, two of which ceased
> > development.
> >
> > What should we do?
>
> 2 only makes sense if prboom-plus provides something the other Doom
> ports don't. Does it? If not, my inclination is to delete prboom-plus,
> delete prboom (unless it too provides something unique), keep dsda-doom,
> and maybe port prboomx.
>
No, DSDA-Doom features everything prboom did before the repository
getting archived. And even included support for [UMAPINFO] by default,
which, on prboom+, was kept on a separate branch until v2.5.1.5, which
our ported version predates.
[UMAPINFO]: https://doomwiki.org/wiki/UMAPINFO
