On 2021-03-26 12:19, Dan Mahoney (Ports) wrote:
More thoughts on mailman, specifically:
So, I just went to find an old FB post I made about mailman 2.x:
===
From the "Load Bearing B****it" department:
Pretty much the entire world is stuck using an EOL'd mailing list manager
(mailman
2.x), which depends on an EOL'd python (2.7).
This includes:
* All the gnu mailing lists
* All of the linux mailing lists at listman.redhat
* all the FreeBSD mailing lists
* all the sourceforge mailing lists
* all the IETF mailing lists
* all of lists.isc.org
* NANOG
===
That’s an AWFUL LOT of sysadmins, network admins, and coders who looked long
and
hard at Mailman 3 and decided “that’s not ready yet”.
I think, if *nothing else*, tauthon needs to be stapled in for mailman, even
if it
lives under /usr/local/mailman/bin or something (and bakes in the couple of
dependencies).
I *fully* concur. In fact, at least 2 ports that I maintain added a depends
on
tauthon. Which really raised my ire hearing it's intended doom announcement.
:(
Honestly. If something "just works", isn't a "security risk". Than don't fix
it!
--Chris
I know about the archive incompatibility. There *might* be a GSOC project
to fix
it. Maybe. Other changes can happen with greater use, but clearly there’s
a
first-mover disadvantage here.
-Dan
On Mar 26, 2021, at 9:06 AM, Chris <[email protected]> wrote:
On 2021-03-26 08:44, RW via freebsd-ports wrote:
On Fri, 26 Mar 2021 13:55:33 +1100 (EST)
Dave Horsfall wrote:
On Thu, 25 Mar 2021, George Mitchell wrote:
>> [...] it is really not for everybody to use overlays in current
>> state (overlays are poor documented at least). [...]
>
> Until this thread I had never heard of them. --
> George
I can't remember the last time I used overlays (certainly with CP/M);
I didn't know that FreeBSD even supported them (why bother when
you've got VM?).
I doubt that meaning of overlay is going to be relevant. I'd not heard
of it either, but from looking in ports/Mk/ it seems to be a way of
modifying port builds.
As I understand it. It allows you to graft out-of-tree ports/versions
onto the ports-tree-proper.
--Chris
_______________________________________________
[email protected] mailing list
https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
_______________________________________________
[email protected] mailing list
https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
_______________________________________________
[email protected] mailing list
https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
