On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 09:59:07AM +0100, Volker Schlecht wrote: > Cc: Maintainer > > Hi, > > the version of riak in ports has been broken for almost two years now, so I > would consider it a safe assumption that there's not a whole lot of interest > in that port. > While I could (and would be willing to) try to update it to a more recent > version, that builds and works with erlang 25.x, I'm really not sure if it's > effort well spent: > > * Nobody seemed to miss it for two years on OpenBSD > * None of the other BSDs provide ports/packages for it > * Barely a Linux distribution provides packages for it > https://repology.org/projects/?search=riak > > At the same time, if/when my proposed update to benchmarks/tsung gets in, > broken databases/riak will be the only port holding back a removal of > lang/erlang/21 and devel/rebar, both of which are not enjoying significant > upstream support anymore. > > Any thoughts?
It doesn't seem to be possible to keep riak buildable without holding back erlang and rebar/rebar3 enough to cause problems elsewhere, and like you say no one minds that it's been marked broken for years now. dlg@ and I still use it, but it runs on machines that don't get upgraded very often, so we can just deal with it ourselves. ok jmatthew@ if someone is itching to get rid of it.
