Re: Request to revive a port?

From: Dan Mahoney (Ports) <freebsd_at_gushi.org>
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2024 05:13:18 UTC
Jinx :)

> On Jun 5, 2024, at 01:05, Reshad Patuck <reshadpatuck1@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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 <mailto: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 <mailto:ports@freebsd.org>, so no specific person in charge.
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> 
>> Olivier
>> 
>>