Re: sather removal proposal

[David Holland <dholland-pkgusers%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 10:39:07AM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote:
 > I propose removing lang/sather.
 > 
 > pkgsrc is, according to repology, one of two distributions still
 > packaging this.
 > 
 > Upstream development stopped in 2009, and bulktracker qshows it's
 > broken on most operating systems including NetBSD 10, Linux, Darwin,
 > and SmartOS.

It seems to be failing somewhere between half and 2/3 the time, by
segfaulting during the build.

It's possible that the "fix -Wall -Werror" treatment might fix it. Or
building with -O0.

However, looking around suggests it's fairly dead as a language (lack
of visible development doesn't always mean that), and the author's
webpage refers to it in the past tense. So unless anyone's actually
using it there's not a lot of point sinking time in.

So I guess we go ahead and remove it...

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David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost