Re: Request to revive a port?

That would be fantastic! According to the article at

https://opensource.com/article/20/3/lightweight-emacs

(near the end), there is a jove 4.17.06-9. The code has been very 
stable for decades, though, so the newer version may add features 
rather than fixing bugs.

--Brett Glass

At 11:05 PM 6/4/2024, Reshad Patuck 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/>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>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 
><<mailto:Olivier.Nicole@cs.ait.ac.th>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 <mailto:ports@freebsd.org>ports@freebsd.org, so 
>no specific person in charge.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Olivier
>