From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 28 14:39:06 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9BF4DA9B for ; Wed, 28 May 2014 14:39:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx-relay41-dus.antispameurope.com (mx-relay41-dus.antispameurope.com [94.100.134.241]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0970C2DA5 for ; Wed, 28 May 2014 14:39:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpsrv2.fokus.fraunhofer.de ([195.37.77.176]) by mx-gate41-dus.antispameurope.com; Wed, 28 May 2014 16:38:11 +0200 Received: from FEYNMAN.fokus.fraunhofer.de (feynman.fokus.fraunhofer.de [IPv6:2001:638:806:9::202] (may be forged)) by smtpsrv2.fokus.fraunhofer.de (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s4SEc1fk010906 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=OK); Wed, 28 May 2014 16:38:01 +0200 Received: from rigel (2001:638:806:9::121) by FEYNMAN.fokus.fraunhofer.de (2001:638:806:9::202) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.3.181.6; Wed, 28 May 2014 16:38:00 +0200 Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 16:38:00 +0200 From: Joerg Schilling To: Subject: Re: Disappearing programs: Is FreeBSD ports unmaintained? Message-ID: <5385f4c8.EdoSK8xux81eCGaT%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> References: <537ca253.L5UAU8FjzLGouZBI%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> In-Reply-To: User-Agent: nail 11.22 3/20/05 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-KSE-Antivirus-Interceptor-Info: protection disabled X-cloud-security-sender: joerg.schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de X-cloud-security-recipient: ports@freebsd.org X-cloud-security-Virusscan: CLEAN X-cloud-security-disclaimer: This E-Mail was scanned by E-Mailservice on mx-gate41-dus with CAC77201801C X-cloud-security-connect: smtpsrv2.fokus.fraunhofer.de[195.37.77.176], TLS=, IP=195.37.77.176 X-cloud-security: scantime:.3723 Cc: ports@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 14:39:06 -0000 Big Lebowski wrote: > Dear Joerg, > > The only problem is that if such port is unmaintained (its maintainer email > address is ports@freebsd.org) there's no one who could do such thing, > because commiters are busy working on the entire ports tree, and apparently > no one from maintainers was interested in the port to do so. If you are, > submit a PR with setting yourself as a maintainer, and then you can take > care of the ports updates and adjustment to changing and evolving ports > tree. I am supplying people with the portable source code. That should be suffucient. Given the fact that there is no FreeBSD related bugreport against star or smake, I assume that you would get the code to compile if you just use a recent _unmodified_ source. I encourage you to remove the FreeBSD specific patches that do not seem to serve a need but affect portability. There have been recent surce updates for smake and star that include even special workarounds for the problems caused by clang. Jörg -- EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily