www/webkit-gtk2 deprecation?

[Jonathan Chen]

On Mon, 25 Feb 2019 at 20:23, Kurt Jaeger <pi at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> > I notice that www/webkit-gtk2 has just been marked as FORBIDDEN and
> > DEPRECATED. While I'm usually for putting down unmaintained ports,
> > this particular port is a dependancy for java/eclipse. I'm sure that
> > users of java/eclipse will not be happy about its loss from FreeBSD
> > ports (I know I'm not). Can we leave it in the tree until a newer port
> > of java/eclipse comes along?
>
> We have 4.6.2 in the ports. Current version upstream seems to be 2018 12 R,
> I don't know how this translates to 4.x.y ?

Unfortunately, the porting effort for Eclipse is quite an involved
process. My feeble attempts to bring java/eclipse up to date have
borne no useful results. I've pinged the maintainer, but haven't heard
anything back from him.

> Is the debate about openjdk11 also playing a role here ?

No, this is separate from that discussion.

Cheers.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>