On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 00:30, Mark Mitchell wrote: > Joe Buck wrote: > > > > But if it won't even build, then users should be warned. > > I suppose -- but we have relatively many configurations that probably > won't build, at least if you start combining various options, and > including langauges beyond just C and C++. > > I'd be content with a patch that issued a warning, but declaring a port > obsolete has often been contentions, and I'd hate to rush into it.
Maybe we need a third category - 'at risk'. Such a port will typically have no active maintainer, some likely serious bugs and might at some future date be obsoleted if no maintainer steps forward. We could put several ports into that category and it shouldn't have the negative stigma that obsolete seems to have. R.
