On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 11:32:50AM +0100, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote: > > We could have some framework for such apps (and for things like CPAN, > > RubyGems and so on) to offload maintaince burden for us, though... > > Actually, I'd love to see the ports in question in until there is such > framework. I always do ports for anything I install, as it is much easier to > deal with packages then hunt all of these things down manually. > > I use neither of ports in question though.
Nice contradiction. Why to have old and probably buggy apps in ports if nobody uses them? Instead of a framework for web apps it would be better to have a tool to check if an app's version in ports is equal to one of upstream, and compare those versions. It would help to detect apps which are very old and which would be probably not used. There is no benefit to have web apps which are just tarballs to be extracted, especially if some of such apps have built-in feature to update themselves. I appreciate more hard work of ports maintainers who struggle with apps we *need* on OpenBSD (browsers, network daemons...). This is much more beneficial than updating web apps' ports just to have it up-to-date in the ports tree. jirib
