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Date:      Sat, 24 Sep 2005 11:07:34 +0200
From:      Anton Berezin <tobez@tobez.org>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        perl@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Delete p5-Tie-DNS?
Message-ID:  <20050924090734.GB14490@heechee.tobez.org>
In-Reply-To: <4334CC6E.1090401@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <4334CC6E.1090401@FreeBSD.org>

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On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 08:47:58PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> Pursuant to the commit below, I looked at the p5-Tie-DNS port. While at the 
> time it was created (2001), it probably had some value, the port has 
> bitrotted badly, and hasn't kept up with the latest developments in 
> Net::DNS. Also, from the BUGS section of the man page:
> 
>        This project is very incomplete.  in-addr.arpa zone transfers aren't
>        yet supported.  This module ONLY supports named arguments, not posi-
>        tional.
> 
> I would therefore recommend that we delete the port altogether.

Go for it, I think.  We can always re-add it in the future if it gets
updated/modernized.

\Anton.
-- 
An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey



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