Deleting ports: bittorent, py-dsv & spe

[Joshua Root]

On 2013-8-27 20:02 , Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 12:18 AM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
>>
>>> PS: I believe that some ports are so out-of-date (not maintained
>>> upstream and most probably not used by anyone) that they should be
>>> deleted. I'll start a new thread about those because that's unrelated
>>> and needs special attention. My suggestion would be to have a standard
>>> procedure to nominate a port for deletion
>>
>> This all sounds like *way* too much bureaucracy and process.
>> I have seen no problem with our current process for deleting ports
>> (that is, using good judgment and maybe asking on a mailing list).
> 
> So maybe let's start by asking: can the following ports (wxWidgets
> dependencies) be deleted?
> - bittorrent
> - py-dsv
> - spe
> 
> Can someone with more authority than me please either delete them or
> argue why the ports should be kept or do whatever is needed to get
> feedback from potential users?
> 
> Bittorent is broken, completely outdated and abandoned (upstream
> replaced it by a different implementation and one cannot even find the
> sources any longer other than on MacPorts mirror). The port py-dsv
> uses the release from 2003 (there was another upstream release later,
> but apparently nobody cared to upgrade it since, there are no tickets
> open, so I doubt there are any users at all). The last release of spe
> seems to date back to 2008 and only mentions wxWidgets 2.6 which is
> not to say that it doesn't work with 2.8, but most probably it doesn't
> with 2.9 and most probably never will. There are no tickets open and I
> also doubt that there are any users for that particular port.

Not that I think it has anyone using it given that it only offers py24,
but you could just remove the wx variant from py-dsv, especially since
it doesn't do anything except add a dependency.

I know spe does work with 2.8, since I checked when moving it off of
py-wxpython26 in r53628. I don't use spe myself, so my changes you see
in its history were prompted by users asking for them.

- Josh