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From: Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: Discontinued projects
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Gabor Tjong A Hung escribió:
> What happens with discontinued projects?
> They seem to pollute our ports tree.
>
> http://tmsnc.sourceforge.net/ seems to indiacte that the project is
> discontinued. Shouldn't its port be removed from the ports tree then?
> I've noticed the same with several other ports.
> http://koti.mbnet.fi/jarmonik/MathPlanner.html aka editors/MathPlanner
>
As long as they work and seem to useful for people (e.g. I use tmsnc 
without problems) they should not be removed.

Regards,
Gabor