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Date:      Mon, 13 Jun 2022 03:15:56 +0200
From:      Jan Beich <jbeich@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Bojan Petrovic" <bojan_petrovic@fastmail.fm>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org, fluffy@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Please do not deprecate ports-mgmt/synth and lang/gcc6-aux
Message-ID:  <1qvt-2wj7-wny@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <f5cd8d32-8a5d-4d63-83e0-eefeb1228b7f@www.fastmail.com> (Bojan Petrovic's message of "Sun, 12 Jun 2022 00:12:51 %2B0200")
References:  <f5cd8d32-8a5d-4d63-83e0-eefeb1228b7f@www.fastmail.com>

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"Bojan Petrovic" <bojan_petrovic@fastmail.fm> writes:

> c) to this, I can only offer to take maintainership of ports-mgmt/synth
> and lang/gcc6-aux. I haven't maintained a FreeBSD port before, so I
> must admit I cannot estimate how much effort it would require on my
> side. I only have a hunch that these ports will be slow-moving targets,
> and will not require too much maintenance effort.

d) Maybe port synth rewrite in C [1] or gcc9-aux [2] from DragonFly.

Disclaimer: I've never used (d)synth myself, so feel free to ignore.

[1] https://github.com/DragonFlyBSD/DragonFlyBSD/tree/master/usr.bin/dsynth
    https://github.com/DragonFlyBSD/dsynth (unfinished portable version)
[2] https://github.com/DragonFlyBSD/DeltaPorts/tree/master/ports/lang/gcc9-aux
    https://sting.dragonflybsd.org/dports/logs/lang___gcc9-aux.log



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