Re: [List] deleted useful ports
Frank Leonhardt <[email protected]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:34:54 +0100
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On 19/07/2026 19:32, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > while mingw32-* ports were deleted? Looking at the commit records: devel/mingw32-gcc: upstream release was in 2015 and mingw32 project is defunct devel/mingw32-bin-msvcrt: last upstream release in 2014, project defunct devel/mingw32-zlib: last upstream release in 2014, project defunct devel/mingw32-libyaml: last upstream release in 2014, project defunct devel/mingw32-libffi: last upstream release in 2014, project defunct devel/mingw32-pthreads: last upstream release in 2012, project defunct devel/mingw32-pdcurses: last upstream release in 2009, project defunct devel/mingw32-openssl: upstream reached EOL, project defunct devel/mingw32-directx: last upstream release in 2002, project "more or less dead" math/mingw32-libgmp: broken for more than a year The first deletion actually occurred in 21st Nov 2023 (commit 8e462bd by Rene Ladan). The intended replacement path is mingw-w64, which is actively maintained and supports both Win32 and Win64 Regards, Frank.