[Mageia-dev] package drop request: alexandria

[Remy CLOUARD]

On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 08:10:16PM +0200, Dexter Morgan wrote:
> On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Dexter Morgan <dmorganec at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Remy CLOUARD <shikamaru at mageia.org> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Could you please drop alexandria please ?
> >>
> >> 1) Alexandria is not maintained upstream anymore
> >> http://alexandria.rubyforge.org/
> >> “New features and future development are being carried out in a separate
> >> project called Palatina. It’s a complete re-write, and is currently at
> >> an early stage of functionality. If you’re intersted in helping the
> >> project, or following it’s progress, you can subscribe to the
> >> palatina-devel mailing-list or check out the wiki.”
> >>
> >> 2) There’s a rewrite of it, but it’s not active since last september.
> >> see git clone git://code.gnostai.org/git/palatina.git
> >>
> >> 3) Alexandria uses ruby-libglade2, which is not part of ruby-gnome2
> >> anymore since version 0.90.6 (we have 0.90.8)
> >> see http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/980605
> >>
> >> To make a long story short, I don’t think it’s worth keeping it. We
> >> would have an unmaintained software, based on unmaintained libraries, so
> >> I’m in favor of dropping alexandria.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >
> > I take care of removing it
> >
> 
> Done

Thanks :-)
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Rémy CLOUARD
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