On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 08:04:28PM +0200, Stefan Hagen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I noticed, that there is textproc/glimpse. Glimpse is functional, but
> upstream is dead for years. Glimpse (the indexer) is completely gone
> and can only be found on mirrors and archive.org. Webglimpse originally
> was the webfrontend for glimpse, but is mentioned as homepage in the
> port (which is not correct, the port does not contain the web part).
>
> Anyway, webglimpse.net is also gone. There is a backup version on
> github (last commit 2014). https://github.com/gvelez17/webglimpse
>
> The gimpse version we're installing is from 1998. There is no more
> recent one.
>
> Good source code indexers are rare, but this one might just be
> too old by now.
>
> Also:
> $ make 2>&1 | grep -i warning | wc -l
> 970
misc/tkman no longer depends on glimpse, thus making it unused and ready
for removal.
Feedback? Objections? OK?
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