What are my options regarding deprecated PyPy port?

[Dewayne Geraghty]

On 26/08/2020 7:12 am, figosdev via freebsd-ports wrote:
>> the easiest way, if you build your own ports, is to svnlite update -r '{2020-03-29}' /usr/ports/security/w3af Note the date before removal from the ports tree.
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> Thanks, this is probably what I was looking for (a way to get a copy of the existing work if ports deletes it).
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You're welcome :)

> Forgive my lack of experience here-- does this imply that when something is "deleted" from ports-- it is like an edit in git or Wikipedia, where the old version still (typically) exists in the tree somewhere? Because if a year from now I can still get the old ports code from the older tree, that's good enough for me.
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I can't speak to git or wikipedia, but I use this technique for ports
that go back to 2018-12-14.  So you should be ok for awhile, perhap a
ports infrastructure person can illuminate.  Though frankly, I keep
copies of all local tree changes against a pristine copy of the ports
tree ("diff -urN" is useful)

You should be aware that the mailing list(s) has mentioned a move to
git, and there is an intention to retain the svn feed, so we should be
fine for the foreseeable.  Also mentioned was a transition guide...

> I also got the downloadable Linux ELF pre-compiled version from pypy.org to run in Linuxulator-- this has me covered for most of the stuff I do with Python, though for GUI stuff it doesn't seem to like the libc in /compat or the one I copied (a point for another list, but for me this solves most of my issue.)
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A bit unfortunate that you need to, though its a resilient workaround :)

> Same GUI stuff runs on the native PyPy. I'm hoping the PyPy devs find a way to make this work, I intend to ask them if they can make a FreeBSD download again. They did one for FreeBSD64 a long time ago.
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Yes, the best way is to try to get the upstream folks to modify their
code for python3.  Though if the dev doesn't want to, you (we) need to
make a calculated risk determination, as I've found with a few very
useful applications (ports).

And as a general rule, I'd suggest avoiding unmaintained ports that
enable inbound network access.
Cheerio.