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Subject: Re: The future of portmaster [and of ports-mgmt/synth]
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On 2017-05-30 22:06, Mark Linimon wrote:
> On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 12:00:14PM -0700, Mark Millard wrote:
>> Kevin Oberman rkoberman at gmail.com wrote on Tue May 30 16:52:19 UTC 2017
>>
>>> I really suggest that you look at synth.
> 
> synth is currently only available for x86 and unless someone steps up
> to do the work to make the Ada compilers run on the other architectures
> that is certain to remain to the case.

Hello, I have not followed this thread before but just wanted to say 
that I use portmaster extensively, it works for us and I would miss it 
if it went. Are there actually plans to retire it? Hope I didn't miss 
something.

Just my $0.02... //per