Reviving a deleted port (pecl-inotify)

[B.J.Scharp]

Hi all,

Back in december when PHP 5.6 went eol, a lot of PECL ports got deleted,
many of which weren't updated or required with PHP 7.x

However, some of them actually had updates to get them going with PHP 7

An example of this is pecl-inotify
(https://www.freshports.org/devel/pecl-inotify/)

Version 2.0.0 was released way back in 2016 for PHP 7, but never ported
for FreeBSD, which only had version 0.1.6.

Updating the port to version 2.0.0 is as simple as changing the version
in the Makefile, and leaving everything else (including the patch)
as-is. I've been running it in production for several months now.

What is the preferred way to get this port back? Revive the old one, or
create a new port 'pecl-inotify2' ?

On that note, I've no experience submitting ports, just
modifying/creating them for my own servers. I'll probably be able to
figure it out with the Handbook, but if the current maintainer wants to
do it, I'll be happy to shoot him/her a diff or tar with my setup.

Regards,
Bernard