kde3-network compile error, is this fixable?

[Chris Rees]

On 31 May 2012 23:26, Etienne Robillard <animelovin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 05/31/2012 05:27 PM, Chris Rees wrote:
>>
>> On 31 May 2012 17:52, Per olof Ljungmark<peo at intersonic.se>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On 05/31/12 14:16, Chris Rees wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On May 31, 2012 12:39 PM, "Per olof Ljungmark"<peo at intersonic.se>
>>>>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I find KDE4 unusable and xfce a bit weak for my purposes so I'm trying
>>>>> to
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> stick to KDE3.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Just a reminder that although people may try to help you, kde3 is
>>>> unmaintained.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> BTW, if KDE3 is unmaintained and this gous for FreeBSD too, perhaps it
>>> should be mentioned in the Handbook?
>>>
>>
>> There is very little software that is unmaintained upstream and is
>> maintained here-- it is strongly discouraged.  Such a declaration
>> would be therefore redundant; EOL upstream means unsupported in
>> FreeBSD.
>>
>> Chris
>
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> I don't know really for kde3-network specifically but I managed to compile
> on a kde-lite without much problems on 8-STABLE after having deleted openssl
> port.
>
> As for whether it is unmaintained, as long its not broken, I don't see
> a reason to fix it unless you have specific needs for kde4...

Of course-- my point was that a note in the Handbook should be
unnecessary-- if it's EOL upstream then it is almost certainly not
maintained or supported here.

Chris