Re: git: 97d52f6d4735 - main - */*: Set an expiration date for several Worldforge libraries and schedule for removal - There has been no release for most of the libraries in the past 10 years.

On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 11:38:06AM +0000, Oliver Lehmann wrote:
> Hi Alexey,
> 
> Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 05:41:58PM +0000, Oliver Lehmann wrote:
> > > commit 97d52f6d473533d6d53e5771c0839c160a2b92dd
> > > 
> > >   Set an expiration date for several Worldforge libraries and schedule
> > >   for removal - There has been no release for most of the libraries in
> > >   the past 10 years.
> > > ...
> > 
> > Looking at https://github.com/worldforge, their repos are well alive and
> > receiving updates.  Maybe we could ask them to tag releases more often
> > rather than removing (presumably working) ports?
> > 
> > ./danfe
> 
> While this might be true, most - if not all of the libs - are rather
> useless if none of worldforges main products like their game client
> Ember is not ported. It was ported once but got removed from the ports
> tree years ago - I fail to remember what was the issue back then.
> So while those libs could be kept there, they are not much of a use
> without any real using component anyway.
> If you still think its useful to keep them I can revert this commit
> and hand them over to ports@ because I don't intend to maintain them
> anymore. I don't see a real worlds benefit in doing so.
> We have no usage statistics of those ports of course but I doubt that
> anyone is using them - because what would they use them for and it
> shouldn't be in the ports system just to have it. It should serve a
> purpose.

No this commit should not be revert, the deprecation is a good way to notify
whoever is interested in maintaining those because they find it useful, if noone
step up, then it will be removed, which is not a big deal, it is easy to revive
if needed.

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