More thoughts on mailman, specifically: So, I just went to find an old FB post I made about mailman 2.x:
=== From the "Load Bearing B****it" department: Pretty much the entire world is stuck using an EOL'd mailing list manager (mailman 2.x), which depends on an EOL'd python (2.7). This includes: * All the gnu mailing lists * All of the linux mailing lists at listman.redhat * all the FreeBSD mailing lists * all the sourceforge mailing lists * all the IETF mailing lists * all of lists.isc.org * NANOG === That’s an AWFUL LOT of sysadmins, network admins, and coders who looked long and hard at Mailman 3 and decided “that’s not ready yet”. I think, if *nothing else*, tauthon needs to be stapled in for mailman, even if it lives under /usr/local/mailman/bin or something (and bakes in the couple of dependencies). I know about the archive incompatibility. There *might* be a GSOC project to fix it. Maybe. Other changes can happen with greater use, but clearly there’s a first-mover disadvantage here. -Dan > On Mar 26, 2021, at 9:06 AM, Chris <portmas...@bsdforge.com> wrote: > > On 2021-03-26 08:44, RW via freebsd-ports wrote: >> On Fri, 26 Mar 2021 13:55:33 +1100 (EST) >> Dave Horsfall wrote: >>> On Thu, 25 Mar 2021, George Mitchell wrote: >>> >> [...] it is really not for everybody to use overlays in current >>> >> state (overlays are poor documented at least). [...] >>> > >>> > Until this thread I had never heard of them. -- >>> > George >>> I can't remember the last time I used overlays (certainly with CP/M); >>> I didn't know that FreeBSD even supported them (why bother when >>> you've got VM?). >> I doubt that meaning of overlay is going to be relevant. I'd not heard >> of it either, but from looking in ports/Mk/ it seems to be a way of >> modifying port builds. > As I understand it. It allows you to graft out-of-tree ports/versions > onto the ports-tree-proper. > > --Chris >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list >> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
