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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 09:59:19PM +0300, Juuso Alasuutari wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 August 2006 20:09, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> > The point of having a grimoire for old stuff is that not all spells that
> > get removed are dead projects. If a project is simply gone completely
> > from the net, without any source location left, there's of course no
> > point in keeping the spell. But consider stuff like gstreamer 0.6, that
> > probably still builds just fine, but I definitely would never waste time
> > on maintaining it. Same goes for gtk1 versions of stuff, e.g. abiword.
> 
> I've had something like that in mind, too. Would this in your opinion also 
> apply to spells like xfree86? It's maintained and a new version (4.6.0) was 
> even released in May, but it seems that everything revolves around X.org 
> nowadays for our developers and users alike.

In cases like this I'd say it depends on how much work it is to continue
maintaining it. E.g. when xorg is completely switched to modular,
maintaining both modular xorg and monolithic xfree as dependency trees
may become too cumbersome to do, so xfree could get moved to deprecated
eventually.

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Arwed v. Merkatz                              Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
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