On 14 December 2014 at 13:50, Nigel Taylor <njtay...@asterisk.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Time to remove GNOME I from ports, it's old and ancient, and not > maintained anymore. > > libghttp was the forerunner to libsoup and part of GNOME I, used to > speed up p5-libwww, provided by including www/p5-HTTP-GHTTP, a wrapper > around www/libghttp. This is the only remaining port using this GNOME I > library. The dependency has lingered on but not used. > > Once p5-libwww has been updated, the www/p5-HTTP-GHTTP port can be > removed and then followed by www/libghttp. > > I been using p5-libwww without libghttp/p5-HTTP-GHTTP for sometime on amd64. > > Only asking for Ok / Comments on www/p5-libwww >
Without commenting on technical desirability, although your justification seems plausible to me, I can say I would *love* to see this because p5-HTTP-GHTTP has been crapping out of my dpb builds for some weeks now for reasons I haven't figured out, beyond knowing it was related to libghttp. :-) .... Ken
