Re: git: 97d52f6d4735 - main - */*: Set an expiration date for several Worldforge libraries and schedule for removal - There has been no release for most of the libraries in the past 10 years.

Hi Alexey,

Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 05:41:58PM +0000, Oliver Lehmann wrote:
>> commit 97d52f6d473533d6d53e5771c0839c160a2b92dd
>>
>>   Set an expiration date for several Worldforge libraries and schedule
>>   for removal - There has been no release for most of the libraries in
>>   the past 10 years.
>> ...
>
> Looking at https://github.com/worldforge, their repos are well alive and
> receiving updates.  Maybe we could ask them to tag releases more often
> rather than removing (presumably working) ports?
>
> ./danfe

While this might be true, most - if not all of the libs - are rather
useless if none of worldforges main products like their game client
Ember is not ported. It was ported once but got removed from the ports
tree years ago - I fail to remember what was the issue back then.
So while those libs could be kept there, they are not much of a use
without any real using component anyway.
If you still think its useful to keep them I can revert this commit
and hand them over to ports@ because I don't intend to maintain them
anymore. I don't see a real worlds benefit in doing so.
We have no usage statistics of those ports of course but I doubt that
anyone is using them - because what would they use them for and it
shouldn't be in the ports system just to have it. It should serve a
purpose.

Regards,
Oliver