imake

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Sep 28, 2014, at 7:42 PM, Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia wrote:

> Why don't we just remove xorg-cf-files, imake, and all dependent ports?  Obviously any project still using imake a decade after the build system was declared dead are themselves not well maintained projects and I argue should not be in our port repository.
> 
> These are the ports that depend on the archaic build system:
> 
> spim
> ivtools
> magicpoint
> tgif
> xfig
> kdebase3
> transfig
> arb
> rasmol
> openvas-server
> canna
> emiclock
> fvwm
> kinput2
> kxterm
> sunclock
> tightvnc
> vtwm
> wmclock
> xcb
> xearth
> xmove
> xsnow
> xspringies
> xtu

I don't plan to remove these ports. I cannot speak for all of them, but as I said earlier, some of the ports I maintain depend on some of the above ports. In particular, pure-octave depends on octave which depends on transfig.