On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 08:04:28PM +0200, Stefan Hagen wrote: > Hello, > > I noticed, that there is textproc/glimpse. Glimpse is functional, but > upstream is dead for years. Glimpse (the indexer) is completely gone > and can only be found on mirrors and archive.org. Webglimpse originally > was the webfrontend for glimpse, but is mentioned as homepage in the > port (which is not correct, the port does not contain the web part). > > Anyway, webglimpse.net is also gone. There is a backup version on > github (last commit 2014). https://github.com/gvelez17/webglimpse > > The gimpse version we're installing is from 1998. There is no more > recent one. > > Good source code indexers are rare, but this one might just be > too old by now. > > Also: > $ make 2>&1 | grep -i warning | wc -l > 970 misc/tkman no longer depends on glimpse, thus making it unused and ready for removal.
Feedback? Objections? OK?
