Quoting Antoine Jacoutot <ajacou...@bsdfrog.org>:
On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 09:26:45AM -0500, Vijay Sankar wrote:
Even though I can understand why outdated software should not have
the imprimatur of OpenBSD, my feeling is that it is better to have
more packages than less. Even if some are outdated, the ports
infrastructure allows someone to copy Makefiles etc., and cobble
together a new package for their own use. However, of all these
I disagree very strongly. There are countless good www ports already
you can base new ones on.
We are not racing to be very strongly the BSD with the biggest
amount of packages, we are trying to provide a big amount of good
packages.
webapps are removed, then quite often, a user may not even know that
such an application exists and may end up wasting time on some other
platform that ostensibly supports more ports. So FWIW, if having all
the old ports does not create problems for dpb and the ports
infrastructure, it will be good to have them.
I'd rather have people wasting time on some other platform that
ostensibly supports more ports than staying on OpenBSD using some
www application package that is totally unmaintained (port wise)
because this leads to a false sense of security. We are talking
about net facing applications here, I have no problem having old
unmaintained stuffs in ports -- but these apps are different.
Would it be feasible to come up with some sort of reward system for
building ports/packages? If it is a useful thing to do for the
OpenBSD community and does not create any problems for the
developers and maintainers, I would like to donate to such an
effort.
That is not how we work we others may disagree.
--
Antoine
Thanks Antoine for the detailed reply. I see the reasons more clearly now.
Vijay
Vijay Sankar, M.Eng., P.Eng.
ForeTell Technologies Limited
vsan...@foretell.ca
---------------------------------------------
This message was sent using ForeTell-POST 4.9
