On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 03:34:02PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> SVK won't build with perl 5.18, and has been dead upstream since 2009.

For those who are unaware of the story, SVK development was stopped
deliberately:
http://lists.bestpractical.com/pipermail/svk-devel/2009-May/001224.html

> I'm wondering whether it's worth continuing with local fixes for this,
> or if it's time to retire it from ports?

My vote goes (again[*]) towards removing it.
Unless someone steps up to become the new upstream.

SVK was released before Git and Mercurial were conceived. Its use
of Subversion's APIs hasn't been updated beyond Subversion 1.4 which
is ancient by today's standards.
There are migration paths towards Subversion 1.8 and to Git/Mercurial.

[*] http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=134663061516178&w=2

  • devel/svk Stuart Henderson
    • Re: devel/svk Stefan Sperling

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