cvs commit: ports MOVED ports/comms Makefile ports/comms/hcidump Makefile distinfo pkg-descr ports/comms/hcidump/files patch-hcidump-Makefile patch-parser-Makefile patch-parser.c

[Maksim Yevmenkin]

2011/9/4 Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at freebsd.org>:
> On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 04:33:38PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
>> On 09/04/2011 09:49, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
>> > On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 07:23:04AM +0000, Doug Barton wrote:
>> >> Remove comms/hcidump. The only master site was a geocities web page
>> >> which disappeared almost 3 years ago.
>> >
>> > I think this one might be a bit premature ...
>>
>> You should already know how I'm going to respond, but for the record ...
>
> :-)  I know, but removing a port being referenced by our primary educational
> resource for users makes us look bad in their eyes.  Documentation should be
> consistent with the reality.
>
>> If you wish to maintain it, go ahead. :) But geocities disappeared
>> almost 3 years ago, and no one responded to the fact that it was
>> deprecated.
>
> Let's see what emax@ has to say about it; that GC site was his.  Perhaps
> it can be included in the base along with other Bluetooth utilities
> (although it's licensed under GPLv2; would be better if all authors and
> contributors could agree to relicense the code under BSD).

hcidump is a very useful tool. please do not remove the port. if its
needs new home, than i will try to find it a new place for it.

thanks,
max