On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 05:46:59AM -0500, Jiri B wrote: > 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.
You can try and port http://www.inerd.com/software/portscout/ -- Antoine
