Fwd: Port retirement / replacement?

[Keto]

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From: Keto <therealketo at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 10:16 PM
Subject: Re: Port retirement / replacement?
To: Austin Ziegler <halostatue at gmail.com>


Austin,

The best way to retire an existing port for a modern iteration is to use
the obsolete PortGroup [1]. The best example out there is the ports exa [2]
and eza [3], but in short: follow up with creating a new port for the new
iteration of an existing port, then add the obsolete PortGroup to the
existing port, and point the repalced_by field to the name of the new port
that deprecates the existing port.

Hope this helps,
Keto

[1]
https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/master/_resources/port1.0/group/obsolete-1.0.tcl
[2]
https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/master/sysutils/exa/Portfile
[3]
https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/master/sysutils/eza/Portfile

On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 10:04 PM Austin Ziegler <halostatue at gmail.com>
wrote:

> There is a port net/cidr, which is based on code last updated in 2001. The
> homepage and master_sites all appear to be unreachable (I found the core
> code at
> https://web.archive.org/web/20020805173333/http://geeksoul.com/robert/cidr/current/cidr.c,
> but that is the only code responding). There is no maintainer, and the only
> checksum is md5. I haven't quite figured out whether there are other places
> this code can be found (other than perhaps `sudo port fetch`)…but I am not
> sure it is worth preserving in MacPorts, because it only deals with IPv4
> CIDR manipulation.
>
> There are more modern CLIs, like https://github.com/bschaatsbergen/cidr,
> written in Go, that know how to deal with both IPv4 and IPv6 and do more
> besides.
>
> What's the process for retiring a port like this one or replacing the
> implementation with something more modern? If I were to want to introduce
> the cidr CLI in go, I would probably make a `net/go-cidr` port, and I know
> that if we were to just drop it in it would need a new epoch (because the
> versions are radically different).
>
> -a
> --
> Austin Ziegler • halostatue at gmail.com • austin at halostatue.ca
> http://www.halostatue.ca/ • http://twitter.com/halostatue
>
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