imake

Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia jeremyhu at apple.com
Sun Sep 28 18:28:25 PDT 2014


> On Sep 28, 2014, at 17:44, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
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> On Sep 28, 2014, at 7:42 PM, Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> These are the ports that depend on the archaic build system:
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> 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. 

Then let's fix transfig (or just remove the imake-dependent portions of it).




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