saving a few ports from death

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 7:48 PM, Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 04/25/2011 17:28, martinko wrote:
>>
>> Ok,
>> I skimmed through the list of deprecated ports and I identifed the
>> following that I may be using or at least used in past and I could take
>> over their maintenance to save them from death:
>
> Generally by the time that a port has deteriorated to the point where the
> distfiles are gone, and it has no maintainer, it's usually a pretty good
> sign that it's time to move on. This isn't just because of the distfile
> issue. Every port in the tree consumes resources, whether it's for pointyhat
> runs, space on the package sites (including the mirrors), etc. They also
> consume time to deal with when they get broken by changes in the OS, etc.
> What we're trying to do here is to eliminate ports that are no longer
> useful.
>
> You might want to consider whether or not some of these can be replaced by
> different alternatives.
>
>> misc/wmweather
>
> Give misc/wmweather+ a try. It's actively developed and maintained.
>
>> sysutils/wmmemmon
>
> There are a million other dockapps that do similar jobs, and this one does
> not seem that special. :)
>
> As for the gimp thing that you mentioned, I don't know anything about it,

http://registry.gimp.org/node/137

"GREYCstoration has been discontinued, and is now replaced by the
G'MIC project, which contains all the former GREYCstoration features,
but also much much much more !"

http://gmic.sourceforge.net/gimp.shtml (G'MIC project)

Cheers,
Mezz


> but if you wish to become its maintainer the polite thing to do would be to
> provide resources to host its distfile(s).
>
>
> Doug
>
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