Are these Emacs ports still useful?

[Joseph Mingrone]

Yasuhiro KIMURA <yasu at utahime.org> writes:

> From: Joseph Mingrone <jrm at FreeBSD.org>
> Subject: Re: Are these Emacs ports still useful?
> Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2017 18:29:29 -0400

>>>> 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?
>>> (snip) 
>>>> - editors/apel (2010 source)
>>>>   - editors/flim (2007 source)
>>>>     - editors/semi (2003 source)

>>> They are required by www/emacs-w3m.

>> They are dependencies for www/emacs-w3m, but are they really required?
>> Upsreams [1,2] say apel and friends are only required with quite old
>> versions of Emacs that were released around 2001.

> I checked '*.el' files of emacs-w3m-emacs-nox11-1.4.598.b.20170903_2
> and found following lines in
> ${PREFIX}${EMACS_VERSION_SITE_LISPDIR}/w3m/octet.el that is
> installed when OCTET_VIEWER option is enabled.

> yasu at eastasia[2305]% less -N /usr/local/share/emacs/25.3/site-lisp/w3m/octet.el

> (snip)

>      65 ;;; Code:
>      66 
>      67 (eval-when-compile
>      68   (require 'cl))
>      69 
>      70 (require 'poe)     ; for compatibility
>      71 (require 'pces)    ; as-binary-process
>      72 (require 'mime)    ; SEMI
>      73 (require 'static)
>      74 (require 'w3m-util); w3m-insert-string

> At line 72 'mime' is required, and this feature is provided by
> semi. So if OCTET_VIEWER option is enabled www/emacs-w3m depends on
> editors/semi.

> Regards.

Thanks for checking.

Joseph
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