svn commit: r565350 - in head: . lang lang/tauthon www www/palemoon

[Adriaan de Groot]

On Tuesday, 16 February 2021 16:08:35 CET Kyle Evans wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 4:53 PM Antoine Brodin <antoine at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > Log:
> >   Remove some ports that were created despite the expirations in place
> > 
> > Deleted:
> >   head/lang/tauthon/
> 
> Please help me understand what just happened here, because this makes
> approximately zero sense to me. Why is tauthon considered expired? If
> it's maintained, independently useful and demonstrably functional for
> something (an example of which you removed along with it), 

I think there's some confusion around the EOL of Python 2.7 and attendant 
cleanups that are worth point out on this list, also to avoid surprises or 
crossed-purposes like this.

There's a Phab task, D28665: Mark ports recursively depending on Python 2.7 
for expiration on June 23. That's being aggressively dealt with (by updating 
dependencies, etc. WebEngine is trying to avoid doing bundling a Python 2.7 as 
part of its build; that would be (a) shit (b) really shit (c) a reminder that 
Google is shit at building actual Open Source products.

Anyway, tauthon *is* (2*pi)thon (and the circumference of a circle is tau * 
radius) so it's probably worth a reminder from tauthon folks *on this list* 
why tauthon exists, what it's for, etc, to avoid .. well, to avoid things like 
tauthon being marked as expired due to containing Python 2.7 code.

[ade]
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