Varkon port status

[Oliver Eikemeier]

Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:

> Hi;
>
> JIC someone is interested in working on this port, there are several 
> issues:
>
> - There is an interesting posting on how to add ODBC support
> http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/varkon-discuss/2004-March/000137.html
>
> - The Makefiles want to find X Headers and libraries at /usr/X11R6/, 
> perhaps
> the easiest way to fix this (thinking of the upcoming X.Org) would be tu
> REINPLACE all occurences of /usr/X11R6 with X11BASE in the makefiles.
>
> - It looks like there are crashes when using modern versions of Mesa :(.
> http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/varkon-discuss/2004-March/000138.html
> I didn't see them when I ported varkon, but you are warned.

Since you still seem interested in the port, why do you not just send-pr
a patch, updating the port? Any reasons for dropping the maintainership
of cad/varkon in PR 53603?

-Oliver