Discontinued projects

[Andrew Pantyukhin]

On 5/24/07, Thierry Thomas <thierry at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Le Jeu 24 mai 07 à 12:16:26 +0200, Gabor Tjong A Hung <g.v.tjongahung at gmail.com>
>  écrivait:
> > What happens with discontinued projects?
> > They seem to pollute our ports tree.
> >
> > http://tmsnc.sourceforge.net/ seems to indiacte that the project is
> > discontinued. Shouldn't its port be removed from the ports tree then?
> > I've noticed the same with several other ports.
> > http://koti.mbnet.fi/jarmonik/MathPlanner.html aka editors/MathPlanner
>
> Well, if they are still usuable, why would we remove them?
>
> In the future, they might break for some reason (unfetchable, broken
> with a new compiler version, not compatible with some dependency, etc.):
> at this time, let's see if someone take time to fix them; if not, they
> will be marked as deprecated, and then removed.

Moreover, many abandoned projects continue to live
in OS-local repositories. Debian have dozens (hundreds?)
of such packages, our ports also have some.