[OpenIndiana-discuss] SFW Packages left for migration

[Marc Lobelle]

On 11/10/16 18:19, Aurélien Larcher wrote:
> Hi,
> here is a short list of packages looking for adoption by a nice maintainer:
>
> benchmark/iozone
> developer/fakeroot
> developer/versioning/guilt
> editor/bvi
> editor/jedit
> image/virtualgl
> library/idnkit
> library/libosip2
> library/xmlrpc-c
> shell/shmux
> terminal/roxterm
> web/aget
>
> Considering that we have been talking about this for several months,
> if nobody is interested in updating them right now, I guess they
> should simply be deprecated instead of carrying old versions around.
>
> Aurélien
>
Some old open source programs are not maintained any more but they do 
well what they are supposed to do. I think xfig is in this case. However 
they are still usefull and used. It is always a loss of time to have to 
find a source and recompile it when you install a new computer with a 
recent OS distribution (such as OI-Hipster1604).

There are also programs that are still maintained but of which an old 
version is in OI, such as cups: it is better to have an old cups than no 
cups at all.

As long as such programs work I would keep them in distributions. If one 
does not like to have them with the others, they could somehow be 
flagged as old.

I'll see if I can make a package with a working version of xfig. Can you 
point me to an howto (assuming I have  a working compiled version for OI).

Thanks

Marc