Request for assistance closing some old pull requests
Perry E. Metzger
pmetzger at macports.org
Mon Mar 19 15:44:48 UTC 2018
There are a few pull requests that are pretty old and which I think
are, de facto, stuck. I'd like to get some feedback about what to do
about them.
If we can close these three, we will have no PRs older than six months
active in the system, which I think is a win.
1: wine*: add 64-bit support
https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/442
Apr 22, 2017 (yes, almost a year old)
This PR seems to be stuck on the fact that Wine de facto needs a 64
bit version to be useful in a modern context, but that macOS is likely
permanently ABI incompatible with Wine 64.
My proposal here is that we close the PR, and that we remove the Wine
port as being unmaintainable going forward.
2: mosh: Switch to protobuf3-cpp
https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/690
Aug 17, 2017
Zero King correctly notes in the course of the PR's comment thread
that protobuf3-cpp conflicts with protobuf-cpp, so all protobuf-cpp
using ports probably should be migrated.
This seems entirely straightforward to do (I made the needed changes
in my own git repo in a couple of minutes) but rather difficult to
test. To close this out, we probably need some volunteer who is in a
position to test such an update.
3: submission vimproc
https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/745
Sep 5, 2017
Raimue asks in the comment thread whether it is a good idea to
maintain ports for vim plugins at all, given that vim users have
vim-specific tools for managing such plugins. If so, I'd like us to
get consensus that the submission can be closed.
Perry
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