Are these Emacs ports still useful?

Joseph Mingrone jrm at FreeBSD.org
Sat Dec 23 23:13:18 UTC 2017


[resending (with updates) because original message did not make it to the list]

Hello all,

A quick scan suggests that these port may have passed their usefulness.
Could you speak up if they are still useful or if you feel they should
be removed?

Regards,

Joseph

- sysutils/puppet-mode.el (pulling from source over 5 years old)
- japanese/egg-canna/Makefile (does not build with emacs versions >= 23)
- deskutils/etask (non-mirrored tarball dead since 2007)
- editors/apel (2010 source)
  - editors/flim (2007 source)
    - editors/semi (2003 source)
- editors/tree-widget (part of emacs since 2007)
- graphics/xface.el (distilator reports 500 for all sources)
- japanese/lookup (source tarball from 2007) (update: feedback received;
  still useful)
- japanese/migemo-emacs23
- japanese/yc.el (source from 2010, does not build w/ emacs-devel)
- mail/xcite (no real updates since 2010, still useful?) (update:
  feedback received; still useful)
- textproc/dictem (last release over five years ago)
- textproc/doc-mode.el (last release from 2006)
- textproc/emacs-wiki (last release from 2006)
- textproc/htmlize.el (500 from MASTER_SITES; fetchable from distcache)
- textproc/ibus-el (no updates for over 5 years)
- textproc/muse (last release from 2010)
- textproc/xml-lite.el (merged with sgml-mode.el in 2007)
- textproc/xml-parse.el (described as deprecated on Emacs wiki; release
  from 2001)

These ports have not been updated in some time.  Should they be updated or removed?

 - editors/psgml (use psgml-1.3.4.tar from http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/psgml.html ?)
 - editors/slime (five new releases since last 2015 port update)
 - japanese/ddskk (using nearly 5-year-old release)
 - mail/waderlust (only fetchable by distcache; source from 2005?;
   combine with mail/wanderlust-devel)
 - mail/x-face-e21 (not fetchable) (update: www.jpl.org is back up)
 - math/proofgeneral (version over 5 years old w/ releases since;
   does not building with Emacs 27 without X)
 - misc/elscreen (release from 2007)
 - print/hyperlatex (release from 2006)
 - print/yatex (version almost 5 years old, newer release available)
 - security/starttls (superceded by
   https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/lisp/net/starttls.el ?)
 - textproc/dictionary (port version from 2011 or earlier, 2013 version
   available)
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