Re: git: 113cf218fe1d - main - net-p2p/mktorrent: Deprecate and set expiration date to 2025-03-31

On Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 10:06:59PM +0000, Daniel Engberg wrote:
> commit 113cf218fe1d6cf57028bc5e91e3495adea58466
> 
>   net-p2p/mktorrent: Deprecate and set expiration date to 2025-03-31
> 
>   Abandonware, new upstream which also seems to have abandoned the project.
>   Point users to net-p2p/mkbrr

Unfortunately, suggested alternative is written in Golang which makes it
much heavier to build (I almost run out of my limited disk space waiting
for it to download its myriad of go-mod files), and the binary is also
considerably larger:

$ ls -l /tmp/usr/ports/net-p2p/mk*/work/stage/usr/local/bin/mk*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 danfe  wheel  9229152 Mar 16 11:36
/tmp/usr/ports/net-p2p/mkbrr/work/stage/usr/local/bin/mkbrr
-r-xr-xr-x  1 danfe  wheel    22592 Mar 16 11:54
/tmp/usr/ports/net-p2p/mktorrent/work/stage/usr/local/bin/mktorrent

So while `net-p2p/mkbrr' is probably a nice project on its own and some
might even prefer it, I'd rather stay with good old mktorrent.  It had
been around for many years, widely known, and provided by most GNU/Linux
distros.  Users rarely care what happens upstream, community maintains
it well enough and submits patches.  I'll keep a hand on its pulse.

./danfe