AIM is shutting down today

[René Ladan]

On 15-12-2017 22:37, Dmitri Goutnik wrote:
> With AOL Instant Messenger products and services going dark today(*)
> (December 15th 2017), a few ports will stop working and probably need to be
> deprecated:
> 
> net-im/bsflite
> net-im/p5-Net-AIM
> net-im/pork
> security/aimsniff
> 
I have removed net-im/pork and security/aimsniff, they were
unmaintained. I plan to remove net-im/bsflite and net-im/p5-Net-AIM
before the end of the year to not drag them into 2018Q1.

> Additionally, these ports
> 
> irc/bitlbee
> net-im/centerim
> net-im/centerim-devel
> net-im/libpurple
>
I will have a look.

> have "AIM" either as a configure option or as a part of option description.
> These ports probably need to be reviewed/updated to have "AIM" removed to
> avoid user confusion.
> 
> (*): https://help.aol.com/articles/aim-discontinued
> 
René