From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 26 00:49:28 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67BF11065674 for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 00:49:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from 65-241-43-5.globalsuite.net (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C8B2163B5D; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 00:48:32 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4DB6165F.1010806@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 17:48:31 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110319 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: martinko References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: saving a few ports from death X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 00:49:28 -0000 On 04/25/2011 17:28, martinko wrote: > Ok, > I skimmed through the list of deprecated ports and I identifed the > following that I may be using or at least used in past and I could take > over their maintenance to save them from death: Generally by the time that a port has deteriorated to the point where the distfiles are gone, and it has no maintainer, it's usually a pretty good sign that it's time to move on. This isn't just because of the distfile issue. Every port in the tree consumes resources, whether it's for pointyhat runs, space on the package sites (including the mirrors), etc. They also consume time to deal with when they get broken by changes in the OS, etc. What we're trying to do here is to eliminate ports that are no longer useful. You might want to consider whether or not some of these can be replaced by different alternatives. > misc/wmweather Give misc/wmweather+ a try. It's actively developed and maintained. > sysutils/wmmemmon There are a million other dockapps that do similar jobs, and this one does not seem that special. :) As for the gimp thing that you mentioned, I don't know anything about it, but if you wish to become its maintainer the polite thing to do would be to provide resources to host its distfile(s). Doug -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/