Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2011 22:36:29 -0400 From: "Mikhail T." <mi+thun@aldan.algebra.com> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>, Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GPC 2006 (Pascal) -- deprecated or "expired"?? Message-ID: <4DEAEBAD.2040107@aldan.algebra.com> In-Reply-To: <4DEAB13F.5060809@FreeBSD.org> References: <BANLkTimmQ7UYubpe0R9NYCVDqXhApcSdGA@mail.gmail.com> <20110603001251.GA66356@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <BANLkTi=Qn6j4eVTxTcG0PdN1RjjvdEuQSQ@mail.gmail.com> <20110603065653.GB65291@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <BANLkTik_XeSpOY-RTeng-t%2BJpQA9=-jBQQ@mail.gmail.com> <4DE8D764.20607@gmx.de> <4DEA8A0E.5070108@aldan.algebra.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1106041541520.34154@wonkity.com> <4DEAB13F.5060809@FreeBSD.org>
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On 04.06.2011 18:27, Doug Barton wrote:
> The math on this is simple, there are maintainers willing to do the
> work, or not.
It does not matter, whether there are any such maintainers, /if there is
no work to do/. Neither lang/gpc nor databases/db2 (for one more
example) required a maintainer at all, when they got "pre-emptively"
killed...
> Rehashing the arguments about how nice it would be to keep every port
> in the universe isn't going to get us anywhere.
Every port in the universe (interestingly, all of them happened to be in
the Solar system), /that continues to build through changes in the base
OS/. That's quite achievable -- in fact, we had just that until fairly
recently...
-mi
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