From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 17 09:26:08 2011 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 578AF106566C for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 09:26:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mandree@FreeBSD.org) Received: from unimail.uni-dortmund.de (mx1.HRZ.Uni-Dortmund.DE [129.217.128.51]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB70C8FC08 for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 09:26:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from apollo.emma.line.org (g227133027.adsl.alicedsl.de [92.227.133.27]) (authenticated bits=0) by unimail.uni-dortmund.de (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p2H9Q624018710 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 10:26:06 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4D81D3AD.7040007@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 10:26:05 +0100 From: Matthias Andree User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; de-DE; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110306 Mnenhy/0.8.3 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org References: <20110316233326.GA68341@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <4D818EFD.3060602@yandex.ru> In-Reply-To: <4D818EFD.3060602@yandex.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Subject: Re: Deprecation campaign 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: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 09:26:08 -0000 Am 17.03.2011 05:33, schrieb Ruslan Mahmatkhanov: > 17.03.2011 02:33, Michel Talon пишет: >> Hello, >> >> i noted that ucpp is deprecated because it cannot be fetched >> from original site. This is an alternate c preprocessor >> supposed to be better than the gnu one, written by Thomas >> Pornin. I happen to know the guy (*), so i searched if >> the soft had been moved, and indeed it can be found here: >> http://code.google.com/p/ucpp/ >> I hope you may reconsider your decision. >> >> With my best regards >> >> (*) i think he now runs a crypto firm in the Boston area. > > I've tried to adopt the port to new distfile.. > It builds but doesn't produce ucpp binary. > Maybe you or anybody can look what's wrong. Guys, all these efforts to rescue the ports are all good, but: do we actually _need_ the ports? Just having one more port isn't a value in itself. And if yes, can someone step up to become maintainer of the port, meaning, upgrade it to new versions, sort FreeBSD bug reports and forward/file them with the upstream authors, and all that? Thanks. -- Matthias Andree ports committer