svn commit: r308158 - in head: . lang lang/tcl82 x11-toolkits x11-toolkits/tk82

[Pietro Cerutti]

On 2012-Dec-03, 11:07, Bryan Drewery wrote:
> On 12/3/2012 10:49 AM, Pietro Cerutti wrote:
> > Author: gahr
> > Date: Mon Dec  3 16:49:48 2012
> > New Revision: 308158
> > URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/308158
> > 
> > Log:
> >   - Retire Tcl/Tk 8.2 now that the last consumer (deskutils/abacus) has gone
> >   - Fix typo in previous commit in MOVED
> >   
> >   Feature safe:	yes
> > 
> 
> 
> I take issue with retiring a library/language port with such short
> notice like this, since no other ports depend on it. This certainly
> could live on as a leaf port and still be useful.

While in theory I could agree with you, please take into consideration a
couple of facts:

* the latest Tcl/Tk in the 8.2 series was released on Dec 16, 1999,
  which means that users have had 13 years to upgrade.

* we have 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, and 8.6 in the tree, which means that users can
  choose among 4 different versions to upgrade to.

* I've marked it as deprecated specifying the deletion date one week ago
  (admittedly not much), and the deletion date was also on the FreeBSD
  Tcl/Tk wiki page, which means that you could have spoken up earlier if
  this removal really caused you any problems.

<smile>
Having said this, please feel free to

* get the two ports back into the tree
* set an expiration date that makes sense to you
* make sure they build / run fine on every FreeBSD release we support
* make sure to remove them at due time

if you really want to.
</smile>

-- 
Pietro Cerutti
The FreeBSD Project
gahr at FreeBSD.org

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