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Date:      Sat, 30 Jul 2011 11:07:16 +0100
From:      Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com>
To:        Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org, zi@freebsd.org, g_glasson@jimali.dyndns.org, rea@freebsd.org, jeremy@algenta.com
Subject:   Re: Retirement of drupal5 port
Message-ID:  <CADLo838Jxi3ttz-mu=La4Y6HQoO7L4ah5zUZHqLY0x%2BVVvYpHg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4D74F8D5.50102@foobar.org>
References:  <4D74F8D5.50102@foobar.org>

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On 7 March 2011 15:25, Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> http://drupal.org/node/880550
>
> "Drupal 5 will no longer be maintained when Drupal 7 is released. Upgradi=
ng
> to Drupal 6 is recommended."
>
> As drupal5 is now no longer maintained, I would like to schedule the remo=
val
> of the freebsd drupal5 port from the ports tree at some stage in the near
> future. =A0So, unless anyone has any overriding objections, my preference
> would be to see it deleted on or around 2011/06/01, i.e. 5 months after
> drupal7 is released, and about 2 months from now.
>

Just for anyone following this, I've deprecated the drupal5* ports and
switched to using bsd.drupal.mk in Mk/ rather than drupal5/ [1]. I've
also sent in a PR to make a USE_DRUPAL knob to make it easier for
ports to use the drupal macros [2].

Chris


[1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-ports/2011-July/222066.html
[2] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3Dports/159288

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