On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 05:26:22PM -0600, Matthew R. Trower wrote: > On 1/10/24 03:33, Marcel Telka wrote: > > > Since nobody cared so far for many many years it looks obvious that > > these pacakges are abandoned, unused, rotted. > > That doesn't follow. I use vi daily, yet you could stop updating it for 20 > years and I wouldn't notice or care, so long as it was still distributed. > Great age does not necessarily mean a package is unused, or even necessarily > rotted. Another person has already said he uses mtx.
Sure. You are right. This is understandable view of the situation from user's point of view. OTOH, developers see the situation a bit differently. This is exactly the reason why I posted the heads up to both openindiana-discuss@ (targetting users) and oi-dev@ (targetting developers). The aim was to let the users/developers know about the upcoming obsoletion and also to encourage somebody to do the real work and package the stuff they care about. It looks like the mission was successful :-). > I'll have a look at getting JEdit, dwdiff, ROXTerm and pen packaged up. > iozone is not GPL, but I can look at it as well. Great news! Thank you! -- +-------------------------------------------+ | Marcel Telka e-mail: mar...@telka.sk | | homepage: http://telka.sk/ | +-------------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
