Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2023 02:24:57 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> To: Muhammad Moinur Rahman <bofh@freebsd.org> Cc: ports-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-main@freebsd.org Subject: Re: git: 7b4f0a9ca476 - main - x11-wm/peksystray: Mark DEPRECATED Message-ID: <ZYD--XHIfnUXKR1U@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <202312181758.3BIHwBk4055918@gitrepo.freebsd.org> References: <202312181758.3BIHwBk4055918@gitrepo.freebsd.org>
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On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 05:58:11PM +0000, Muhammad Moinur Rahman wrote: > commit 7b4f0a9ca4764734918bcadce3ed412e0d06544a > > x11-wm/peksystray: Mark DEPRECATED > > - Last upstream release was in 2007 > - Set EXPIRATION_DATE 2024-01-18 Perhaps you're a bit overzealous with these deprecations based solely on distfile age alone. I've ported this program and still occasionally use it, e.g. several weeks ago while debugging weird G_CALLBACK() bug within g_signal handler (so I need several independent tray providers). Unix and X11 provide very stable interfaces allowing to write programs that work for decades unmodified. Things do bitrot and programs stop working, segfault on startup, distfile can disappear, etc. -- these are valid deprecation reasons, but otherwise it looks more of a disrespect towards people who took their time to write and port those programs. ./danfe
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