[129391] trunk/dports/perl/p5-cgi-speedycgi/Portfile

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 9:56 AM, David Evans wrote:
> On 12/12/14 11:12 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>>
>> Assuming that all the working ports have been taken care of: what
>> would you do with completely broken ports (that is: ports where
>> p5.16-foo is just as broken as p5.20-foo)? Obviously we are not
>> removing the existing broken variants. (I removed broken variants
>> 5.8-5.14 in p5-wx for example, but there 5.16 worked just fine.)
>>
>> Mojca
>>
> If a port is completely broken and it's agreed that there is no hope of
> fixing it, I would vote to remove it.
>
> p5-cgi-speedycgi may be such a port as it really does appear to be
> completely broken and has not been updated since 2003.  Ignoring the fact
> that CGI in general is a bit outdated, there are other, perhaps better, ways
> to accomplish similar goals (e.g. mod_fcgid, mod_fastcgi, mod_perl2).
>
> Dave

This particular port has apparently been broken for almost three years
(at least for clang; maybe it still works on 10.6). It looks as if it
was added as a dependency of another port (which switched to a
different module by now).

So yes, maybe it's just about time to remove this port.

Mojca