imake

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Sep 28, 2014, at 8:28 PM, Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia wrote:

> On Sep 28, 2014, at 17:44, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> 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:
>> 
>> 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).

I have emailed the developer of transfig to discover if any work has been done on that front.