svn commit: r460298 - in head: devel/alabastra

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 08:53:21AM -0500, Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> On Monday, January 29, 2018 10:09:56 AM EST Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > > +++ head/devel/alabastra/Makefile       Mon Jan 29 12:56:00 2018
> > > (r460298) @@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ DISTNAME=     Alabastra-${PORTVERSION}
> > > MAINTAINER=     ports at FreeBSD.org
> > > COMMENT=        C++ editor written with Qt 4
> > > 
> > > +DEPRECATED=    Abandonware, not used in the ports tree
> > > +EXPIRATION_DATE=       2018-03-01
> > 
> > This is a leaf port: the fact that it's not used in the ports tree is not
> > relevant.  It also fetches, builds, and runs fine.  Why deprecate it?
> 
> While it's all fun to have lots of things in the ports collection, you can
> also ask yourself if a software product that last saw an update to 0.21 --
> last commits seem to be in 2009 on sourceforge

SF.net is still the best distfile CDN, even in 2018.  It sucks at other
things, but I'd wish more projects were using it for hosting distfiles.

> -- which relies on a toolkit that reached end-of-life in 2015, with plenty
> of alternatives, and with no port maintainer, really should live on.

Qt4 is still well in use by many software, it works nicely and I don't see
any reason why it should be EoLed.

> By all means, Mat, deprecate and move on. If someone actively cares, it
> can be picked up again.

Who's Mat? :-)  r460298 was committed by bapt at .  You would'be known this
if your reply had retained enough of the original context.

./danfe