From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 16 16:12:45 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6CEC1065673 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 16:12:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from corky1951@comcast.net) Received: from qmta02.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta02.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.24]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 917C28FC20 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 16:12:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta18.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.90]) by qmta02.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id KsA61g0031wpRvQ52sClnl; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 16:12:45 +0000 Received: from comcast.net ([98.203.142.76]) by omta18.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id KsCf1g01o1f6R9u3esCiAQ; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 16:12:44 +0000 Received: by comcast.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:12:38 -0700 Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:12:38 -0700 From: Charlie Kester To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20110316161238.GM5349@comcast.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org References: <20110315215801.GD5349@comcast.net> <4D8094C5.2000200@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4D8094C5.2000200@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Mailer: Mutt 1.4.2.3i X-Composer: Vim 7.3 Cc: Subject: Re: deprecated ports 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: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 16:12:46 -0000 On Wed 16 Mar 2011 at 03:45:25 PDT Matthias Andree wrote: >However, we should be sure to find maintainers before ports are >undeprecated, else we run into a cycle of deprecation, reviving the >port, deprecating it again, and so on. I definitely agree with this. If someone wants to get one of these ports off the deprecated list, they should be willing to maintain it. I'm willing to take on more myself, but I'm not running a home for orphaned ports here. There has to be something about the port that interests me. I'm fond of commandline tools and ncurses-based interfaces, for example, which is why I took lookat. We have far too many unmaintained ports in the tree. I applaud this effort to weed out the stale ones. I certainly didn't intend for my comments re gimpshop, xinvest and xquote to lead to them being pulled off the deprecated list but still unmaintained. If no one else wants them, I'll take xinvest and xquote, since I'm responsible for their current status. But I'm leery of the whole gimp-y swamp. If I took gimpshop, I'd probably be in over my head. So I hope you'll understand if I decline.