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

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> 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 that CGI in general is a bit outdated, there are other, perhaps better, ways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.

http://trac.macports.org/changeset/129456

Mojca