Re: Bringing back lang/python27 with few modules?

Kubilay Kocak <koobs@freebsd.org> 于2021年11月25日周四 下午6:40写道：
>
> On 23/11/2021 7:57 pm, Rene Ladan wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 07:46:35PM +0100, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
> >> On 22/11/2021 10:46, Rene Ladan wrote:
> >>> On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 01:57:56AM +0000, Pau Amma wrote:
> >>>> On 2021-11-18 01:37, Kubilay Kocak wrote:
> >>>>> We've had many user reports over the last year re the entire
> >>>>> situation, including a number recently about pypy in particular.
> >>>>
> >>>> Late to the discussion, but I'm sad that Chromium survived the Python2.7
> >>>> removal and Iridium didn't. :-(
> >>>
> >>> Upstream Iridium always seems to lag behind Chromium for a bit, but it is
> >>> doing OK now I geuss (one major version behind). The problem with Iridium
> >>> is also volunteer time to keep the port up to date, one Chromium-like port
> >>> is already a lot.
> >>
> >> Even if you are OK with Chromium, there are users for which Chromium is
> >> not an option and Iridium is more than just preferable. (or Ungoogled,
> >> or Brave or something else not so heavily tied to Google spying / tracking)
> >>
> >> Removing Iridium was a really bad step.
> >>
> > To all of those that keep complaining that Iridium got removed:
> > feel free to bring it back and maintain it.
> >
> > Regards,
> > René
> >
>
> Not helpful Rene. Thank you.
>

The nice thing about a version control system is that we can revert
and adjust things. So I believe that interested people should not be
discouraged to work on the revival of that port, and I see no problem
in this particular advice that "we will discuss it after someone steps
up to maintain it" as a next step.

Best,
-- 
Guangyuan Yang
ygy@FreeBSD.org