Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 11:08:24 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Ladan?= <rene@freebsd.org> To: Olivier Duchateau <duchateau.olivier@gmail.com> Cc: xfce@freebsd.org Subject: Re: deprecating x1-wm/xfce (3.8.18) ? Message-ID: <CADL2u4gO4zgQaX4U9x797O4bNNZ1wZ0V-4Z6nYNR0-rO0Vqx-A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAHcdu2pfdEesdhCJ6VK5hBfTT534Qw0Z9rKrEBaeBy8k0drfOw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CADL2u4jm0=-NxM02KbpvAVcNqs_6CFUj_=03G_nLphoxf5Wcyw@mail.gmail.com> <CAHcdu2pfdEesdhCJ6VK5hBfTT534Qw0Z9rKrEBaeBy8k0drfOw@mail.gmail.com>
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2011/11/6 Olivier Duchateau <duchateau.olivier@gmail.com>: > 2011/11/6 Ren=E9 Ladan <rene@freebsd.org>: >> Hi, >> >> bapt@ asked me on IRC if there are any plans to deprecate/remove >> x11-wm/xfce (the 3.8.18 version). Google shows this version is from >> 2002, i.e. 9 years old. Even the download page on the Xfce site "only" >> goes back to the 4.0 version. So, should it be deprecated/removed? >> I think it still works. >> > > Yes, it should be removed, because now it has taken the place of > x11-wm/xfce4. Like x11/avant-window-navigator-xfce4. > I'll mark x11-wm/xfce deprecated with 3 months expiration so people can migrate to xfce4. x11/avant-window-navigator itself seems ok, but the -xfce4 slave port is marked broken. Maybe we can fix this? > Also, sysutils/xfce4-places-plugin, with defaults options in Xfce 4.8, > it's already present in panel. > I'll remove this. > You should mark BROKEN misc/xfce4-weather-plugin [1]. > > [1] http://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce/2011-November/029423.html > As this is a "commercial" problem, I think IGNORE is better in this case: the software itself works but has no data feed any longer (if the format remained the same). Regards, Rene
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