FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2015-05-07 Thread linimon
As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of problems in the FreeBSD ports system, we periodically schedule removal of ports that have been judged to have outlived their usefulness. Often, this is due to a better alternative having become available and/or the cessation of development on

FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2015-04-21 Thread linimon
As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of problems in the FreeBSD ports system, we periodically schedule removal of ports that have been judged to have outlived their usefulness. Often, this is due to a better alternative having become available and/or the cessation of development on

FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2015-04-07 Thread linimon
As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of problems in the FreeBSD ports system, we periodically schedule removal of ports that have been judged to have outlived their usefulness. Often, this is due to a better alternative having become available and/or the cessation of development on

FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2015-03-21 Thread linimon
As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of problems in the FreeBSD ports system, we periodically schedule removal of ports that have been judged to have outlived their usefulness. Often, this is due to a better alternative having become available and/or the cessation of development on

FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2015-03-07 Thread linimon
As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of problems in the FreeBSD ports system, we periodically schedule removal of ports that have been judged to have outlived their usefulness. Often, this is due to a better alternative having become available and/or the cessation of development on

FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2015-02-21 Thread linimon
As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of problems in the FreeBSD ports system, we periodically schedule removal of ports that have been judged to have outlived their usefulness. Often, this is due to a better alternative having become available and/or the cessation of development on

FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2015-02-07 Thread linimon
As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of problems in the FreeBSD ports system, we periodically schedule removal of ports that have been judged to have outlived their usefulness. Often, this is due to a better alternative having become available and/or the cessation of development on

FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2015-01-21 Thread linimon
As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of problems in the FreeBSD ports system, we periodically schedule removal of ports that have been judged to have outlived their usefulness. Often, this is due to a better alternative having become available and/or the cessation of development on

FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2015-01-07 Thread linimon
As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of problems in the FreeBSD ports system, we periodically schedule removal of ports that have been judged to have outlived their usefulness. Often, this is due to a better alternative having become available and/or the cessation of development on

FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2014-12-21 Thread linimon
As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of problems in the FreeBSD ports system, we periodically schedule removal of ports that have been judged to have outlived their usefulness. Often, this is due to a better alternative having become available and/or the cessation of development on

FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2014-12-07 Thread linimon
As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of problems in the FreeBSD ports system, we periodically schedule removal of ports that have been judged to have outlived their usefulness. Often, this is due to a better alternative having become available and/or the cessation of development on

Re: Overly aggressive obsoleting of ports (Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion)

2014-11-22 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 7:05 AM, Mikhail T. mi+t...@aldan.algebra.com wrote: The two examples below strike me as particularly aggressive. Speaking as someone working for a web-hosting group in a major company, I can tell authoritatively, that -- had we used FreeBSD over there -- we would've

Re: Overly aggressive obsoleting of ports (Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion)

2014-11-22 Thread Mikhail T.
On 22.11.2014 18:19, Kevin Oberman wrote: It's not like FreeBSD has a to of choice when the BerkeleyDB folks have dropped db-4.8. I don't see a connection... People getting their software from Oracle may have a point to make with the vendor. I'm talking about those, who install it via FreeBSD

FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2014-11-21 Thread linimon
As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of problems in the FreeBSD ports system, we periodically schedule removal of ports that have been judged to have outlived their usefulness. Often, this is due to a better alternative having become available and/or the cessation of development on

Overly aggressive obsoleting of ports (Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion)

2014-11-21 Thread Mikhail T.
The two examples below strike me as particularly aggressive. Speaking as someone working for a web-hosting group in a major company, I can tell authoritatively, that -- had we used FreeBSD over there -- we would've found having to upgrade this way unbearable. We use Red Hat, which emphasizes

FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2014-11-07 Thread linimon
As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of problems in the FreeBSD ports system, we periodically schedule removal of ports that have been judged to have outlived their usefulness. Often, this is due to a better alternative having become available and/or the cessation of development on

FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2014-10-21 Thread linimon
As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of problems in the FreeBSD ports system, we periodically schedule removal of ports that have been judged to have outlived their usefulness. Often, this is due to a better alternative having become available and/or the cessation of development on

FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2014-10-07 Thread linimon
As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of problems in the FreeBSD ports system, we periodically schedule removal of ports that have been judged to have outlived their usefulness. Often, this is due to a better alternative having become available and/or the cessation of development on

textproc/sxml (FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion)

2014-10-07 Thread Mikhail T.
On October 7 PortMgr wrote: portname: textproc/sxml description:Skimpy XML parsing and grafting library for C language maintainer: po...@freebsd.org deprecated because: expiration date:2014-08-31 build errors: none. overview:

Re: textproc/sxml (FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion)

2014-10-07 Thread Baptiste Daroussin
On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 10:50:01AM -0400, Mikhail T. wrote: On October 7 PortMgr wrote: portname: textproc/sxml description:Skimpy XML parsing and grafting library for C language maintainer: po...@freebsd.org deprecated because: expiration date:2014-08-31

FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2014-09-21 Thread linimon
As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of problems in the FreeBSD ports system, we periodically schedule removal of ports that have been judged to have outlived their usefulness. Often, this is due to a better alternative having become available and/or the cessation of development on

FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2014-09-07 Thread linimon
As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of problems in the FreeBSD ports system, we periodically schedule removal of ports that have been judged to have outlived their usefulness. Often, this is due to a better alternative having become available and/or the cessation of development on

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2014-07-21 Thread Bob Eager
On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 08:34:19 GMT lini...@freebsd.org wrote: portname: lang/rexx-regutil description:Implementation of IBM's RexxUtil function library for Regina maintainer: b...@eager.cx deprecated because: Not staged. See

FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2014-06-21 Thread linimon
As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of problems in the FreeBSD ports system, we periodically schedule removal of ports that have been judged to have outlived their usefulness. Often, this is due to a better alternative having become available and/or the cessation of development on

FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2014-06-07 Thread linimon
As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of problems in the FreeBSD ports system, we periodically schedule removal of ports that have been judged to have outlived their usefulness. Often, this is due to a better alternative having become available and/or the cessation of development on

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2014-05-24 Thread Matthew Rezny
After a break for over a month due to connectivity issues and other RL crap, a followup appears... On Sunday 13 April 2014 20:36:58 John Marino wrote: On 4/13/2014 19:52, Matthew Rezny wrote: On Sunday 13 April 2014 18:16:15 John Marino wrote: On 4/13/2014 17:46, Matthew Rezny wrote: On

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2014-05-24 Thread Kurt Jaeger
Hi! Matthew Rezny wrote: [...] If you don't like it, then don't do it, but don't stand in the way of anyone else that does. Also, cut the crap. If maintainer is ports@, then what that literally means is the ports community as a whole is maintaining those ports. If they are not maintained

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2014-05-24 Thread Michelle Sullivan
Before I say anything - tonight is a bottle of wine and a night off... ;-) Also, I've done the steps of fix, stage, and claim maintership. The issue is honestly be the maintainer. How can I honestly call myself the maintainer when I can't actually do anything to the port myself. If

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2014-05-24 Thread Kurt Jaeger
Hi! They just need converting to a staged environment? If so if you'd like to take a look at: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=189880 and tell me if I did it right and tell me how I can choose something that no-one is working on I'll crack on with some of them. I test-build the

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2014-05-24 Thread Michelle Sullivan
Kurt Jaeger wrote: Hi! They just need converting to a staged environment? If so if you'd like to take a look at: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=189880 and tell me if I did it right and tell me how I can choose something that no-one is working on I'll crack on with some of

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2014-05-24 Thread Kurt Jaeger
Hi! I agree that there was a lot of change in the ports tree recently. But: There is a reason for this: The ports tree has to be cleaner so that it can provide better automatic processes to the users. It's not easy, but it's getting there. I found a presentation which really goes deep into

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2014-05-24 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Kurt Jaeger li...@opsec.eu wrote: Hi! I agree that there was a lot of change in the ports tree recently. But: There is a reason for this: The ports tree has to be cleaner so that it can provide better automatic processes to the users. It's not easy, but

FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2014-05-21 Thread linimon
As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of problems in the FreeBSD ports system, we periodically schedule removal of ports that have been judged to have outlived their usefulness. Often, this is due to a better alternative having become available and/or the cessation of development on

FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2014-04-21 Thread linimon
As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of problems in the FreeBSD ports system, we periodically schedule removal of ports that have been judged to have outlived their usefulness. Often, this is due to a better alternative having become available and/or the cessation of development on

Fw: Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2014-04-16 Thread Jeffrey Bouquet
or not... --- On Tue, 4/15/14, Jeffrey Bouquet jeffreybouq...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Jeffrey Bouquet jeffreybouq...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion To: ports list freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Date: Tuesday, April 15, 2014, 6:16 PM

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2014-04-15 Thread Jeffrey Bouquet
On Sun, 4/13/14, Jeffrey Bouquet jeffreybouq...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Date: Sunday, April 13, 2014, 11:45 AM     On 4/13/2014 17:46, Matthew Rezny

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2014-04-13 Thread John Marino
On 4/13/2014 07:21, Matthew Rezny wrote: On 4/9/2014 19:56, Christian Weisgerber wrote: On 2014-04-08, Tijl Coosemans tijl at coosemans.org wrote: Then, once it is reasonable to assume that a port is unused it is first marked deprecated which gives users some time to step forward. There

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2014-04-13 Thread Matthew Rezny
On Sunday 13 April 2014 09:20:32 John Marino wrote: On 4/13/2014 07:21, Matthew Rezny wrote: On 4/9/2014 19:56, Christian Weisgerber wrote: On 2014-04-08, Tijl Coosemans tijl at coosemans.org wrote: Then, once it is reasonable to assume that a port is unused it is first marked deprecated

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2014-04-13 Thread John Marino
On 4/13/2014 17:46, Matthew Rezny wrote: On this list I see cfv, which I've used for years, marked just because it's not maintained. It works great, it needs no changes. You want someone to bloat it with a useless non-feature to prove people still use it? I see there's a few other sfv

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2014-04-13 Thread Matthew Rezny
On Sunday 13 April 2014 18:16:15 John Marino wrote: On 4/13/2014 17:46, Matthew Rezny wrote: On this list I see cfv, which I've used for years, marked just because it's not maintained. It works great, it needs no changes. You want someone to bloat it with a useless non-feature to prove

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2014-04-13 Thread John Marino
On 4/13/2014 19:52, Matthew Rezny wrote: On Sunday 13 April 2014 18:16:15 John Marino wrote: On 4/13/2014 17:46, Matthew Rezny wrote: On this list I see cfv, which I've used for years, marked just because it's not maintained. It works great, it needs no changes. You want someone to bloat it

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2014-04-13 Thread Jeffrey Bouquet
On 4/13/2014 17:46, Matthew Rezny wrote: On this list I see cfv, which I've used for years, marked just because it's not maintained. It works great, it needs no changes. I'm not officially a maintainer on any ports for a few reasons. I have other areas where I consider

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2014-04-12 Thread Matthew Rezny
On 4/9/2014 19:56, Christian Weisgerber wrote: On 2014-04-08, Tijl Coosemans tijl at coosemans.org wrote: Then, once it is reasonable to assume that a port is unused it is first marked deprecated which gives users some time to step forward. There seems to be the general problem, seen

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2014-04-10 Thread Tijl Coosemans
On Wed, 9 Apr 2014 20:26:09 + (UTC) Christian Weisgerber wrote: On 2014-04-09, John Marino freebsd.cont...@marino.st wrote: In the meantime -- it's still a non-problem as long as svn revert works. svn revert throws away local changes. I don't think that's what you mean. In fact, I

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2014-04-10 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Tijl Coosemans: You can undo the russian part of that commit using: cd /usr/ports svn merge -c -348843 russian russian After consulting the Subversion book, I think svn cp ^/head/russian/xmms@348842 russian would be the better way to resurrect a port. Then remove the russian/xmms line

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2014-04-10 Thread Baptiste Daroussin
On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 11:28:43AM +0200, John Marino wrote: On 4/9/2014 11:22, Big Lebowski wrote: While we are not having any way to measure ports usage (or am I wrong here?), we're still building packages from ports, and I would hope that we could get some statistics of pkg usage for

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2014-04-09 Thread Big Lebowski
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 12:20 AM, Tijl Coosemans t...@coosemans.org wrote: On Tue, 08 Apr 2014 13:12:48 -0400 Mikhail T. wrote: On 08.04.2014 12:55, Tijl Coosemans wrote: On Tue, 08 Apr 2014 09:57:48 -0400 Mikhail T. wrote: On 08.04.2014 08:00, freebsd-ports-requ...@freebsd.org wrote: If

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2014-04-09 Thread John Marino
On 4/9/2014 11:22, Big Lebowski wrote: While we are not having any way to measure ports usage (or am I wrong here?), we're still building packages from ports, and I would hope that we could get some statistics of pkg usage for certain packages from official repositories, could we? This is not

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2014-04-09 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 11:22:58 +0200 Subject: Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion From: Big Lebowski spankthes...@gmail.com To: Tijl Coosemans t...@coosemans.org Cc: Mikhail T. mi+t...@aldan.algebra.com, freebsd-ports freebsd-ports@freebsd.org As a sidenote

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2014-04-09 Thread Big Lebowski
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 11:28 AM, John Marino freebsd.cont...@marino.stwrote: On 4/9/2014 11:22, Big Lebowski wrote: While we are not having any way to measure ports usage (or am I wrong here?), we're still building packages from ports, and I would hope that we could get some statistics of

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2014-04-09 Thread John Marino
On 4/9/2014 13:45, Big Lebowski wrote: On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 11:28 AM, John Marino freebsd.cont...@marino.stwrote: On 4/9/2014 11:22, Big Lebowski wrote: While we are not having any way to measure ports usage (or am I wrong here?), we're still building packages from ports, and I would hope

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2014-04-09 Thread Christian Weisgerber
On 2014-04-08, Tijl Coosemans t...@coosemans.org wrote: For xmms there's xmms2, audacious and numerous other multimedia players. XMMS works well for what it does, is lightweight by today's standards, and has survived most of its sucessors. The only alternative is Audacious, which has much

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2014-04-09 Thread John Marino
On 4/9/2014 19:56, Christian Weisgerber wrote: On 2014-04-08, Tijl Coosemans t...@coosemans.org wrote: Then, once it is reasonable to assume that a port is unused it is first marked deprecated which gives users some time to step forward. There seems to be the general problem, seen again and

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2014-04-09 Thread Jim Pingle
On 4/9/2014 2:09 PM, John Marino wrote: On 4/9/2014 19:56, Christian Weisgerber wrote: On 2014-04-08, Tijl Coosemans t...@coosemans.org wrote: Then, once it is reasonable to assume that a port is unused it is first marked deprecated which gives users some time to step forward. There seems

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2014-04-09 Thread Christian Weisgerber
On 2014-04-09, John Marino freebsd.cont...@marino.st wrote: In the meantime -- it's still a non-problem as long as svn revert works. svn revert throws away local changes. I don't think that's what you mean. In fact, I don't know how to even find (the history of) removed files with Subversion.

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2014-04-09 Thread Thierry Thomas
Le mer 9 avr 14 à 22:26:09 +0200, Christian Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de écrivait : In the meantime -- it's still a non-problem as long as svn revert works. svn revert throws away local changes. I don't think that's what you mean. In fact, I don't know how to even find (the history

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2014-04-09 Thread Charles Swiger
Hi-- On Apr 9, 2014, at 1:26 PM, Christian Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de wrote: In fact, I don't know how to even find (the history of) removed files with Subversion. For instance, at some point there must have been a port russian/xmms, but neither svnweb nor svn log show it. You can see the

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2014-04-08 Thread Mikhail T.
On 08.04.2014 08:00, freebsd-ports-requ...@freebsd.org wrote: If people are using a port, then I would agree it should be kept regardless of maintainer status. But that doesn't mean keeping everything forever as long as it compiles. Why not? Why not keep everything forever as long as it

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2014-04-08 Thread Christian Weisgerber
On 2014-04-08, Mikhail T. mi+t...@aldan.algebra.com wrote: The most recent list included not only software for interfacing with old video-cameras -- various modules for xmms, for example, are on the chopping block too, for just another example. Why?.. I was wondering about the XMMS modules,

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2014-04-08 Thread Tijl Coosemans
On Tue, 08 Apr 2014 09:57:48 -0400 Mikhail T. wrote: On 08.04.2014 08:00, freebsd-ports-requ...@freebsd.org wrote: If people are using a port, then I would agree it should be kept regardless of maintainer status. But that doesn't mean keeping everything forever as long as it compiles. Why

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2014-04-08 Thread Mikhail T.
On 08.04.2014 12:55, Tijl Coosemans wrote: On Tue, 08 Apr 2014 09:57:48 -0400 Mikhail T. wrote: On 08.04.2014 08:00, freebsd-ports-requ...@freebsd.org wrote: If people are using a port, then I would agree it should be kept regardless of maintainer status. But that doesn't mean keeping

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2014-04-08 Thread Chris Rees
On 04/08/14 18:12, Mikhail T. wrote: On 08.04.2014 12:55, Tijl Coosemans wrote: On Tue, 08 Apr 2014 09:57:48 -0400 Mikhail T. wrote: On 08.04.2014 08:00, freebsd-ports-requ...@freebsd.org wrote: If people are using a port, then I would agree it should be kept regardless of maintainer status.

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2014-04-08 Thread Tijl Coosemans
On Tue, 08 Apr 2014 13:12:48 -0400 Mikhail T. wrote: On 08.04.2014 12:55, Tijl Coosemans wrote: On Tue, 08 Apr 2014 09:57:48 -0400 Mikhail T. wrote: On 08.04.2014 08:00, freebsd-ports-requ...@freebsd.org wrote: If people are using a port, then I would agree it should be kept regardless of

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2014-04-08 Thread A.J. 'Fonz' van Werven
Tijl Coosemans wrote: For xmms there's xmms2 That's no comparison. Not even fracking close. I for one am very glad that Christian Weisgerber is having a look at the XMMS-related ports. AvW P.S. I do agree with your message as a whole, just not with this particular example. -- I'm not

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2014-04-08 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Tijl Coosemans t...@coosemans.org wrote: On Tue, 08 Apr 2014 13:12:48 -0400 Mikhail T. wrote: On 08.04.2014 12:55, Tijl Coosemans wrote: On Tue, 08 Apr 2014 09:57:48 -0400 Mikhail T. wrote: On 08.04.2014 08:00, freebsd-ports-requ...@freebsd.org wrote: If

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2014-04-07 Thread Mikhail T.
Once again I am seeing this dreadful list and once again I am wondering... Why are we removing ports simply for being unmaintained? Those with build-errors -- Ok, I understand, bit-rot happens. Those with (much) newer versions available -- sure. But simply unmaintained -- that does not seem

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2014-04-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mikhail T. mi+t...@aldan.algebra.com writes: Once again I am seeing this dreadful list and once again I am wondering... Why are we removing ports simply for being unmaintained? Those with build-errors -- Ok, I understand, bit-rot happens. Those with (much) newer versions available -- sure.

FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2014-02-21 Thread linimon
As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of problems in the FreeBSD ports system, we periodically schedule removal of ports that have been judged to have outlived their usefulness. Often, this is due to a better alternative having become available and/or the cessation of development on

FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2014-02-07 Thread linimon
As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of problems in the FreeBSD ports system, we periodically schedule removal of ports that have been judged to have outlived their usefulness. Often, this is due to a better alternative having become available and/or the cessation of development on

FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2014-01-21 Thread linimon
As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of problems in the FreeBSD ports system, we periodically schedule removal of ports that have been judged to have outlived their usefulness. Often, this is due to a better alternative having become available and/or the cessation of development on

FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2014-01-07 Thread linimon
As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of problems in the FreeBSD ports system, we periodically schedule removal of ports that have been judged to have outlived their usefulness. Often, this is due to a better alternative having become available and/or the cessation of development on

FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2013-12-21 Thread linimon
As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of problems in the FreeBSD ports system, we periodically schedule removal of ports that have been judged to have outlived their usefulness. Often, this is due to a better alternative having become available and/or the cessation of development on

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2013-06-07 Thread Joseph Mingrone
Hi; lini...@freebsd.org writes: The ports, and the reason and date that they have been scheduled for removal, are listed below. If no one has stepped forward before that time to propose a way to fix the problems (such as via a PR), the ports will be deleted. portname:

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2013-06-07 Thread Kubilay Kocak
On 8/06/2013 4:42 AM, Joseph Mingrone wrote: Hi; lini...@freebsd.org writes: The ports, and the reason and date that they have been scheduled for removal, are listed below. If no one has stepped forward before that time to propose a way to fix the problems (such as via a PR), the ports

[RE:] Freebsd ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2012-09-21 Thread Jeffrey Bouquet
Thanks to this email (omitted, too lengthy) I removed directories sheduled for deletion which would have halted portmaster's procedures were they to be only existing with my own files within them... bsdar games/pets and copied portmanager, its .so.'s, and man page for safekeeping (I used it in

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2012-06-24 Thread Koop Mast
On Thu, 2012-06-21 at 21:59 -0500, Mark Linimon wrote: On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 01:24:55PM +0200, Stefan Esser wrote: Am 21.06.2012 10:29, schrieb lini...@freebsd.org: portname: audio/gstreamer-plugins-flite description:Gstreamer flite run-time speech synthesis engine

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2012-06-21 Thread Stefan Esser
Am 21.06.2012 10:29, schrieb lini...@freebsd.org: portname: audio/gstreamer-plugins-flite description:Gstreamer flite run-time speech synthesis engine plugin maintainer: multime...@freebsd.org status: BROKEN deprecated because: BROKEN

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2012-06-21 Thread Mark Linimon
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 01:24:55PM +0200, Stefan Esser wrote: Am 21.06.2012 10:29, schrieb lini...@freebsd.org: portname: audio/gstreamer-plugins-flite description:Gstreamer flite run-time speech synthesis engine plugin maintainer:

FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2012-04-07 Thread linimon
As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of problems in the FreeBSD ports system, we periodically schedule removal of ports that have been judged to have outlived their usefulness. Often, this is due to a better alternative having become available and/or the cessation of development on

FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2012-03-21 Thread linimon
As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of problems in the FreeBSD ports system, we periodically schedule removal of ports that have been judged to have outlived their usefulness. Often, this is due to a better alternative having become available and/or the cessation of development on

pgtclng port (Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion)

2012-03-21 Thread Mikhail T.
On 21.03.2012 08:00, M. Linimon wrote: portname: databases/postgresql-tcltk description:A TCL interface to the database PostgreSQL, including a tk GUI maintainer:pg...@freebsd.org status: BROKEN deprecated because: Broken for months with no-one

Re: pgtclng port (Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion)

2012-03-21 Thread Chris Rees
On 21 Mar 2012 13:08, Mikhail T. mi+t...@aldan.algebra.com wrote: On 21.03.2012 08:00, M. Linimon wrote: portname: databases/postgresql-tcltk description:A TCL interface to the database PostgreSQL, including a tk GUI maintainer:pg...@freebsd.org

Re: pgtclng port (Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion)

2012-03-21 Thread Chris Rees
On 21 Mar 2012 16:12, Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote: On 21 Mar 2012 13:08, Mikhail T. mi+t...@aldan.algebra.com wrote: On 21.03.2012 08:00, M. Linimon wrote: portname: databases/postgresql-tcltk description:A TCL interface to the database PostgreSQL, including

FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2012-03-07 Thread linimon
As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of problems in the FreeBSD ports system, we periodically schedule removal of ports that have been judged to have outlived their usefulness. Often, this is due to a better alternative having become available and/or the cessation of development on

FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2012-02-21 Thread linimon
As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of problems in the FreeBSD ports system, we periodically schedule removal of ports that have been judged to have outlived their usefulness. Often, this is due to a better alternative having become available and/or the cessation of development on

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2012-02-08 Thread perryh
Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org wrote: On 02/08/2012 02:12, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: lini...@freebsd.org wrote: portname: graphics/vrml2pov description:Convert VRML files to POVRay source maintainer: po...@freebsd.org status: BROKEN deprecated

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2012-02-08 Thread Vitaly Magerya
portname: graphics/vrml2pov description:Convert VRML files to POVRay source maintainer: po...@freebsd.org status: BROKEN deprecated because: unfetchable This seems to be a ports-infrastructure problem, rather than a problem in the vrml2pov port. No,

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2012-02-08 Thread Vitaly Magerya
portname: graphics/vrml2pov description:Convert VRML files to POVRay source maintainer: po...@freebsd.org status: BROKEN deprecated because: unfetchable This seems to be a ports-infrastructure problem, rather than a problem in the vrml2pov port. No,

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2012-02-08 Thread Yuri Pankov
On Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:12:39 -0800, perryh wrote: lini...@freebsd.org wrote: portname: graphics/vrml2pov description:Convert VRML files to POVRay source maintainer: po...@freebsd.org status: BROKEN deprecated because: unfetchable This seems to be a

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2012-02-08 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Doug Barton wrote: On 02/07/2012 17:13, Svyatoslav Lempert wrote: 2012/2/7lini...@freebsd.org: The ports, and the reason and date that they have been scheduled for removal, are listed below. If no one has stepped forward before that time to propose a way to fix the problems (such as via a

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2012-02-08 Thread Svyatoslav Lempert
2012/2/8 Miroslav Lachman 000.f...@quip.cz: Doug Barton wrote: On 02/07/2012 17:13, Svyatoslav Lempert wrote: 2012/2/7lini...@freebsd.org: The ports, and the reason and date that they have been scheduled for removal, are listed below.  If no one has stepped forward before that time to

FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2012-02-07 Thread linimon
As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of problems in the FreeBSD ports system, we periodically schedule removal of ports that have been judged to have outlived their usefulness. Often, this is due to a better alternative having become available and/or the cessation of development on

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2012-02-07 Thread Svyatoslav Lempert
2012/2/7 lini...@freebsd.org: The ports, and the reason and date that they have been scheduled for removal, are listed below.  If no one has stepped forward before that time to propose a way to fix the problems (such as via a PR), the ports will be deleted. portname:           lang/php52

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2012-02-07 Thread perryh
lini...@freebsd.org wrote: portname: graphics/vrml2pov description:Convert VRML files to POVRay source maintainer: po...@freebsd.org status: BROKEN deprecated because: unfetchable This seems to be a ports-infrastructure problem, rather than a problem in

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2012-02-07 Thread Doug Barton
On 02/08/2012 02:12, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: lini...@freebsd.org wrote: portname: graphics/vrml2pov description:Convert VRML files to POVRay source maintainer: po...@freebsd.org status: BROKEN deprecated because: unfetchable This seems to be a

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2012-02-07 Thread Alexander Pyhalov
Hello. On 02/07/2012 12:29, lini...@freebsd.org wrote: portname: databases/p5-postgresql-plperl description:Write SQL functions for PostgreSQL using Perl5 maintainer:p...@freebsd.org deprecated because: No longer supported by upstream-- upgrade to later

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2012-02-07 Thread Alexander Pyhalov
On 02/08/2012 10:10, Chad Perrin wrote: On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 09:41:04AM +0400, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: Hello. On 02/07/2012 12:29, lini...@freebsd.org wrote: portname: databases/p5-postgresql-plperl description:Write SQL functions for PostgreSQL using Perl5

Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2012-02-07 Thread Chris Rees
On 8 Feb 2012 06:26, Alexander Pyhalov a...@rsu.ru wrote: On 02/08/2012 10:10, Chad Perrin wrote: On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 09:41:04AM +0400, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: Hello. On 02/07/2012 12:29, lini...@freebsd.org wrote: portname: databases/p5-postgresql-plperl description:

FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2012-01-21 Thread linimon
As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of problems in the FreeBSD ports system, we periodically schedule removal of ports that have been judged to have outlived their usefulness. Often, this is due to a better alternative having become available and/or the cessation of development on

FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2012-01-07 Thread linimon
As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of problems in the FreeBSD ports system, we periodically schedule removal of ports that have been judged to have outlived their usefulness. Often, this is due to a better alternative having become available and/or the cessation of development on

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