From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 19 04:24:06 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5EA2106564A for ; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 04:24:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from paul@donovansbrain.co.uk) Received: from hapkido.dreamhost.com (hapkido.dreamhost.com [66.33.216.122]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD4948FC13 for ; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 04:24:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from homiemail-a45.g.dreamhost.com (caibbdcaaaaf.dreamhost.com [208.113.200.5]) by hapkido.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9026017B94B for ; Mon, 18 Apr 2011 21:01:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from homiemail-a45.g.dreamhost.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by homiemail-a45.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DBEB48076 for ; Mon, 18 Apr 2011 21:01:31 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=donovansbrain.co.uk; h= mime-version:date:from:to:subject:message-id:content-type: content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=donovansbrain.co.uk; b=VvdgZ 0nztGPzsliKDwtPrycOj3kV+vsvXrM/UxmqX53BryXpYHJnKK8sMisD+fdygZ/ct mAw0VUjx1oHTl6CrVOIvr09tc29u55/iLvO6/Kw9XFHB30x59RtARpklxK2FdLOC Xf663YhNN2nLDNXbqF1MB4W8+IOMjByZPUYjSo= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=donovansbrain.co.uk; h= mime-version:date:from:to:subject:message-id:content-type: content-transfer-encoding; s=donovansbrain.co.uk; bh=Z5TV6MJpS2t 8hd/MEL9i2ciN5dU=; b=Ps+rdwto48SmgSRj3DJDwEacYjR3hxVRX+MyTh07ztf o/0Apt1kN6zG5x3K6r+EgGaYDk45Un6pX4qMebQZBSkNIp32KJr++Ut8+ezp91Iy oROksOykmzCW/MX0hk/J8RLYAIB4Ml4xnI0fY0UuCDxwoxc63hki++PSzQDiB41w = Received: from webmail.donovansbrain.co.uk (ahfbbjcaiaae.dreamhost.com [75.119.208.4]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: paul@donovansbrain.co.uk) by homiemail-a45.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1A09348021 for ; Mon, 18 Apr 2011 21:01:31 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 21:01:31 -0700 From: Paul Donovan To: Message-ID: X-Sender: paul@donovansbrain.co.uk User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.3.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Subject: Howl port - deprecated? 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, 19 Apr 2011 04:24:07 -0000 Hi, I notice the the Howl port's status is Deprecated with the reason given a= s 'Upstream disapear and distfile is no more available'. See: http://www.FreshPorts.org/net/howl/ However, Howl is still listed at freshmeat.net http://freshmeat.net/projects/howl and the download link for the tar.gz o= n that page still works. It in fact goes to the original developer's site a= t http://www.porchdogsoft.com/download/howl-1.0.0.tar.gz, so it looks like the only thing that's missing is the project information page itself at porchdogsoft.com I don't really know what this deprecated state means for the future of this port, but as a small lightweight alternative to the only other Zeroconf implementation (avahi) I think many people would appreciate it still being available. Regards, Paul