From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 21 10:54:35 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03974106564A for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 10:54:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scheidell@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mx1.secnap.com.ionspam.net (mx1.secnap.com.ionspam.net [204.89.241.253]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C18F08FC14 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 10:54:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx1.secnap.com.ionspam.net (mx1.secnap.com.ionspam.net [10.70.1.253]) by mx1.secnap.com.ionspam.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65A44621C21; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 06:54:33 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: SpammerTrap(r) VPS-1500 2.18 at mx1.secnap.com.ionspam.net Received: from USBCTDC001.secnap.com (usbctdc001.secnap.com [10.70.1.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.secnap.com.ionspam.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7BB80621C0F; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 06:54:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from USBCTMX001.secnap.com (::ffff:10.70.1.129) by USBCTDC001.secnap.com (::ffff:10.70.1.1) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.0.722.0; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 06:54:32 -0400 Message-ID: <4FE2FD67.3040407@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 06:54:31 -0400 From: Michael Scheidell Organization: SECNAP Network Security Corp User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; en-US; rv:1.9.2.20) Gecko/20110804 Thunderbird/3.1.12 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mikhail T. References: <20120621083054.90E051065692@hub.freebsd.org> <4FE2F839.9060904@aldan.algebra.com> In-Reply-To: <4FE2F839.9060904@aldan.algebra.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-ports Digest, Vol 474, Issue 7 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, 21 Jun 2012 10:54:35 -0000 On 6/21/12 6:32 AM, Mikhail T. wrote: > On 21.06.2012 04:30, freebsd-ports-request@freebsd.org wrote: >> portname: x11/etoile >> description: Metaport for Etoile desktop >> maintainer:ports@FreeBSD.org ^^^^^^^^ >> deprecated because: API no longer supported >> expiration date: 2012-07-20 >> build errors: none. >> overview:http://portsmon.FreeBSD.org/portoverview.py?category=x11&portname=etoile >> > The entire etoile is being ripped out for a reason of "API no longer > supported"... Could the powers that be elaborate, what this means, > please? Which API? > > The version in ports is 0.4.1. Visiting the project's web-site > (http://www.etoile-project.org/) shows version 0.4.2 available since > April. Thanks! > you are more then welcome to adopt them. without anyone maintaining them (ports@ is a default, means no maintainer, old maintainer dropped it) There won't be anyone updating these either. Do you use it? Do you need it? grab maintainership and update away. Extremely important to you commercially? but don't have the time to maintain it? some readers of this group can be bribed by paypal or amazon gift lists ,, (no, not me) if nobody maintains a port, eventually, it gets into disrepair. and then gets deleted. -- Michael Scheidell, CTO >*| * SECNAP Network Security Corporation d: +1.561.948.2259 w: http://people.freebsd.org/~scheidell