From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 3 12:00:03 2009 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 9C9CE106564A for ; Tue, 3 Mar 2009 12:00:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rbgarga@gmail.com) Received: from yw-out-2324.google.com (yw-out-2324.google.com [74.125.46.29]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5226F8FC20 for ; Tue, 3 Mar 2009 12:00:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rbgarga@gmail.com) Received: by yw-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 2so1513617ywt.13 for ; Tue, 03 Mar 2009 04:00:02 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=vO8NcXaoo6G1CdlPrMfPtj3VyNh+jxdDEoAjoQjk7tI=; b=jaXuy5K37W1ICIS5oHTHBlhoUnd3fqNFjVwQlboTpfxgvKmbWi4BeS7nkfi6/tzY5j t2L+1Suw6kNeu3DLMEG05v9dwjf1TioXCGUEgzZNiRXrJ7/tfXVnyDNG6FN1lk3ZSD8f FOfXn6FTJZzuP0mBz0+Ztr8sfwpIgaoQArbzY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=UvZ02xdSqVplArcq52XPKOv3M3fu6K5TKddHqOx8LkeTPUOKd5ztMZJ9DAYKlGI8vF ULh8/anskcCzR0qQbL2MV79kfsMw71kRCqJfnLu79Qrdpac7Df/HdR0of5QCgDOXsWIs wmBgjkwPTfsCDklMEPylu67QTyImeVuPk9buE= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.220.92.79 with SMTP id q15mr2136408vcm.11.1236079920831; Tue, 03 Mar 2009 03:32:00 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20090302223600.GD29616@redundancy.redundancy.org> References: <7d6fde3d0902281509v6a98521as618421daf52b3abe@mail.gmail.com> <7d6fde3d0902281605u2a251513q44ccfc0c8226c9fd@mail.gmail.com> <20090302223600.GD29616@redundancy.redundancy.org> Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 08:32:00 -0300 Message-ID: <747dc8f30903030332n415709c7h6719bdb01ed4e543@mail.gmail.com> From: Renato Botelho To: "David E. Thiel" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dead projects in ports tree 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: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 12:00:03 -0000 On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 7:36 PM, David E. Thiel wrote: > On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 04:05:56PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: >> > multimedia/openquicktime - no movement in CVS / SVN for 1+ years; no >> > releases in the past 3 years >> > >> > =A0 =A0I'll continue posting more items to this thread as I find them.= .. >> > Thanks, >> > -Garrett >> >> xmms looks completely dead now. Can someone confirm or deny this fact? > > While I'm in favor of removing useless ports, there are several projects > which are simply "done", and lack of development doesn't mean they're > obsolete or useless. The logic above would seem to suggest we should > remove qmail too. I would like to hear what people feel the best method > for getting rid of unused and irrelevant ports, though -- bump > portrevision and mark BROKEN for a few months? Qmail doesn't have a new version for a long time, i know, but new version of patch collection are released, like you can see las spamcontrol 2.5.x, and author is working on 2.6.x with a lot of new features, so, i don't consider qmail a dead project at all. And, there are a good number of qmail users, i don't think it's a good idea remove this port, i'm maintaining it for some years and i can still maintai= n and keep it working on ports infrastructure. --=20 Renato Botelho