Re: Request to revive a port?

From: Reshad Patuck <reshadpatuck1_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2024 05:05:34 UTC
I had a look at the FreeBSD-ports repository history and it looks like the
Jove port expired in January this year.
editors/jove||2024-01-18|Has expired: No upstream update in last 23 years
The upstream for this port is
https://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/pub/moraes/jove/ARCHIVE/4.16/ with the latest
files from 1996.

That said there seems to be a github project which seems to be maintained
https://github.com/jonmacs/jove and it looks like the debian package uses
this.
I can try my hand at creating a port for this over the weekend if that
would be helpful.

Best,
Reshad

On Wed, 5 Jun 2024 at 10:20, Olivier <Olivier.Nicole@cs.ait.ac.th> wrote:

> >> between FreeBSD 14.0 and 14.1, it seems to have dropped out of
> >> the port and package collections. It's very simple and stable
>
> Ports are not really linked to a version of FreeBSD, I cannot find Jove
> on a 13.3 machine I have either.
>
> It may be because there was no active maintener anymore, I see that jove
> is maintained by ports@freebsd.org, so no specific person in charge.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Olivier
>
>
>