What to do with old versions of Python, Perl, PHP, Apache1 (and others)?

[Mark Anderson]

I vote for killing a lot of them. Apache 1 for instance is a very bad thing
to be running right now. If they are EOL upstream, keeping them around is
also a bit of false hope to people that might need them. I know I for one
could not fix some of these builds since I don't have old enough OSes, and
I don't really care to.

—Mark
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Mark E. Anderson <emer at emer.net>

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 5:47 PM, Jeremy Lavergne <jeremy at lavergne.gotdns.org>
wrote:

> On 02/04/2016 03:32 PM, Joshua Root wrote:
> >> The question is: what should be the general policy with these ports?
> >> How long should we keep them around?
> >
> > As long as they still build on some OS X version that base works on. If
> > they break and nobody steps up to fix them, that's a pretty good
> > indication that it's time for them to go.
> >
> > As you mentioned, there are all kinds of reasons why people have to test
> > against old versions. A deprecation warning in the description and notes
> > would be a good idea.
>
>
> Could this be considered reinforcing the expectation of no one fixing
> tickets?
>
> If people need to use the very old versions, we should encourage them to
> use source control to look up these Portfiles. While stubbing ports with
> this message would be helpful, I worry how many ports would become stubs.
>
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