[MacPorts] #46411: p5-mac-carbon: should we retire ports depending on Carbon?

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#46411: p5-mac-carbon: should we retire ports depending on Carbon?
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  Reporter:  mojca@…                             |      Owner:  macports-
      Type:  defect                              |  tickets@…
  Priority:  Normal                              |     Status:  new
 Component:  ports                               |  Milestone:
Resolution:                                      |    Version:
      Port:  p5-mac-appleevents-simple p5-mac-   |   Keywords:
  apps-launch p5-mac-carbon p5-mac-glue p5-mac-  |
  growl p5-mac-osa-simple                        |
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Changes (by devans@…):

 * cc: pixilla@… (removed)
 * cc: pixilla@…, ryandesign@… (added)


Comment:

 In spite of Larry's valiant attempts, if you believe the documentation,
 `p5-mac-carbon` dates from pre-OSX times and portions of the provided API
 only work on MacOS while the portion that works with OSX is definitely
 32bit only and they say needs to run on a 32 bit perl or at least a
 universal one that supports 32 bit platforms.  Looks like development
 stalled trying to port it to 10.6 some time in 2009.  Comments/bugs on
 CPAN note build problems that remain unaddressed and recommend removal
 from CPAN.

 Given these issues, I'm sceptical of the utility of the provided API on
 OSX and the value of resurrecting it and would vote for removing this port
 and its dependents as being outdated and obsolete. We have plenty of other
 ports to maintain,

 On the other hand, I recognize that there is a community that uses
 MacPorts on older 32 bit machines, so if someone from that community who
 finds them useful would step up to maintain these, that might be a
 different situation.

 I see pixilla is the maintainer of dependent `p5-mac-growl`.  Perhaps he
 would be willing to maintain the lot.

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