Re: Poll for users of misc/openhab

[Chris]

On 2025-09-11 08:46, Andrea Cocito wrote:

On 11 Sep 2025, at 11:22, Alexander Leidinger <alexan...@leidinger.net> wrote:

Poll / possible way forward for us:

2) keep misc/openhab at v4 until a fixed version is available

1) update misc/openhab from v4 to v5, losing JS/python support for some months 3) copy misc/openhab to misc/openhab4 and have misc/openhab at v5 (but then I would not do a run-test of v4 anymore... this is my least preferred way)

to go be it a try right in the weekend.

As a “non user” so far, take this opinion as JMH one.


someone, option 2 means slowing the upgrade.

Sad to say: my advice is for #3, make a separate port, mark the old one as
“feature freeze, unsupported” and go on.


current one/version… drop a note to the maintainers.

First of all thank you. I did not know openhanded but, as a KNX hacker, I’m going If I understand well option 1 means a loss of features potentially in use from Keep an eye on dependencies, it’s unlikely but if some other port depends on the

As a long-time maintainer. It seems reasonable to add v5 as a "devel" port. Thereby keeping v4 available and then useful once it's fixed. This is not a terribly uncommon case.

So:
1) add <category>/openhab-devel
2) keep <category>/openhab

This also assumes that openhab gets fixed reasonably soon. I don't see
any other way forward.

This of course, assumes you (or somebody) would maintain the openhab-devel port :)

Cheers,

A.

HTH

--Chris

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