Re: Fwd: [package - main-amd64-default][net/Sockets] Failed for Sockets-2.3.9.9_3 in build

Hi Andrea,

Thank you for still keeping up with ports emails after all these years!
Best would be if you filed a PR on bugzilla indicating that you wish to
deprecate the port and are looking for others to step up.  This makes it
easier to keep track of things.  Our process is to deprecate the port
with an expiration date of a few months into the future.  If nobody
steps up to take up the work, it'll eventually get deleted.

Yours,
Robert Clausecker

Am Sun, Jul 30, 2023 at 03:42:44PM +0200 schrieb Andrea Venturoli:
> Hello.
> 
> I'm the maintainer of the net/Sockets port and I received this mail 
> about it not being able to compile on 14.
> 
> The last version of this library was published in 2013 (more than 10 
> years ago... no wonder it doesn't compile cleanly with a modern version 
> of LLVM) and while their site does not explicitly say so, I'm tempted to 
> think that it's abandonware.
> Personally I've used it once, some 15 years ago, to develop (on FreeBSD) 
> what is now a legacy product that a former customer of mine moved to 
> Linux, so it's been a long time since I had anything to do with it at all.
> AFAICT there is no consumer port either.
> 
> So the question: is there any interset for this library?
> If so, I might try to fix this (but not any time soon... I guess 
> notbefore 14.0 is officially released).
> Otherwise, I propose to drop the port.
> 
>   bye & Thanks
> 	av.
> 

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