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[seth AT swoolley.homeip.net]

On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 09:15:00PM +0200, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> 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.

I think people should just look in the change history, not a "deprecated" 
grimoire.

Seth