Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 11:36:23 -0400 From: Bush Doctor <dervish@goku.cl.msu.edu> To: Justin Seger <jseger@scds.com> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Removing tcl-7.6/tk-4.2 from the ports collection Message-ID: <20000426113623.E20407@goku.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <000201bfaf90$c10d77e0$867a1581@rh.rit.edu>; from jseger@scds.com on Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 11:04:43AM -0400 References: <000201bfaf90$c10d77e0$867a1581@rh.rit.edu>
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Out of da blue Justin Seger aka (jseger@scds.com) said: > I know this has been brought up in the past, but looking at our current > collection, now is a good time to do it. > > I'd like to remove lang/tcl-7.6 and x11-toolkits/tk-4.2 from the ports > collection. > First of all, this does not effect ja-tcl-7.6 or ja-tk-4.2. There are still > quite a few ports that depend on the japanese versions. However, the only > ports that depend on the normal tcl-7.6/tk-4.2 are: > [snippage ...] > x11-fm/tkdesk-1.1: A graphical, highly configurable and powerful file > manager > MAINTAINER: dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk > > According to Fenner's portsurvey, this has been unfetchable since > November,1999 > The webpage referred to in the Makefile redirects to a website > that is > unreachable. > > SUGGESTION: remove this port This port has a new version (1.2) a new url (http://sd.znet.com/~jchris/tkdesk/) and is based on tcl/tk 8.0 - 8.2. If the maintainer can no longer maintain this port, I'd be willing to do it. > > If I don't hear any loud protests to any of the above actions, I will go > ahead with the > above suggestions, and then delete tcl-7.6/tk-4.2 > > Thanks, > Justin Seger > > #;^) -- f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr prgrmmng. bush doctor <dervish@goku.cl.msu.edu> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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