Hi,
Some years ago i mailed ports@ for removal of games/prboom-plus.
It got a response from its $MAINTAINER, but the discussion died.
tl;dr:
- prboom+ is not maintained/developed anymore.
- the last, final maintenance version, 2.6.66, is the last and final.
- our port is and old version, 2.5.1.4, before development moved to github.
- dsda-doom is its "spiritual successor", as announced upstream.
Our options are:
1. Remove games/prboom-plus, make it install games/dsda-doom instead
(that's what debian did).
2. Update games/prboom-plus to final v2.6.66; never touch it again.
3. Port PrBoomX, yet another fork of PrBoom+; keep three comfusingly
homonymous ports: games/prboom{,-plus,x}, two of which ceased
development.
What should we do?
The original mail:
On Sat, Sep 09, 2023 at 06:12:36AM -0300, Lucas de Sena wrote:
> PrBoom+ development had long moved from SourceForge to Github[1][2],
> so the ports include an old version of the source engine.
>
> The development, however has been discontinued in June this year; a
> last maintainer version (v2.6.66) has been released; and the Github
> repository has been archived:[3]
>
> > Hey people,
> >
> > I'd like to announce that I just tagged the PrBoom+ 2.6.66 release!
> >
> > https://github.com/coelckers/prboom-plus/releases/tag/v2.6.66
> >
> > This is just a maintenance release to make the changes that have
> > accumulated over the past 1.5 years available to all users who
> > cannot build the sources themselves. Please do not mistake this
> > as a sign of active development!
> >
> > Future development will continue to take place in DSDA-Doom [1].
> > Or, for those who like to stay closer to the original code base,
> > check out JadingTsunami's PrBoomX [2].
> >
> > [1] https://github.com/kraflab/dsda-doom
> > [2] https://github.com/JadingTsunami/prboomX
>
> Quoting from the DoomWiki[4]:
>
> > The last update of active development was version 2.6.2, released on
> > February 11, 2022. On June 20, 2023, maintenance version 2.6.66 was
> > released which collects all changes committed after development
> > discontinued. Three days later, the GitHub repository was archived.
>
> DSDA-Doom, a source engine based on PrBoom+ which has already been
> ported to OpenBSD, is PrBoom+'s spiritual successor. Debian, for
> example, changed prboom-plus into a transitional dummy package to
> dsda-doom.[5]
>
> Therefore, since prboom-plus has been discontinued, should we remove
> it from the ports? And recommend people to install dsda-doom instead?
>
> There is also PrBoomX[6], which is closer to the original code base,
> although it seems to not have the new features dsda-doom adds on top
> of PrBoom+. (I have never tried it, tho).
>
> [1]: https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/106866-prboom-2666-jun-20-2023/
> [2]: https://github.com/coelckers/prboom-plus
> [3]: https://www.doomworld.com/forum/post/2662145
> [4]: https://doomwiki.org/wiki/PrBoom%2B
> [5]: https://packages.debian.org/sid/games/prboom-plus
> [6]: https://doomwiki.org/wiki/PrBoomX
