Friday, December 30, 2022

Proposal/Question: drop databases/riak?

Cc: Maintainer

Hi,

the version of riak in ports has been broken for almost two years now,
so I would consider it a safe assumption that there's not a whole lot of
interest in that port.
While I could (and would be willing to) try to update it to a more
recent version, that builds and works with erlang 25.x, I'm really not
sure if it's effort well spent:

* Nobody seemed to miss it for two years on OpenBSD
* None of the other BSDs provide ports/packages for it
* Barely a Linux distribution provides packages for it
https://repology.org/projects/?search=riak

At the same time, if/when my proposed update to benchmarks/tsung gets
in, broken databases/riak will be the only port holding back a removal
of lang/erlang/21 and devel/rebar, both of which are not enjoying
significant upstream support anymore.

Any thoughts?

cu,
Volker

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