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On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 10:12:44AM -0500, Dale wrote: |
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> Wonder why it is not being kept up to date. Maintainer no longer |
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> interested in it, other tools took its place??? |
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The code developer is a Gentoo developer. I've looked at the C (one file) and |
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it's not particularly good code; 100+ line functions with a few memory |
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leaks and generally poor C-programming practices. I would advise against using |
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it, especially considering that it doesn't provide any functionality over |
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grepping through use{,.local}.desc or using the on-line index. |
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It also has a few other silly bugs [1] and quirks; I'd be very dissatisfied if a |
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programmer under my (hypothetical) employment wrote such code. |
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The maintainer/developer also seems to have a very carefree attitude to serious |
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bug reports, such as replying with "euses checks for an environment variable |
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PORTDIR. Does this help?" to the report regarding his tool relying heavily on |
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deprecated features. |
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[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/715748 |
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Ashley Dixon |
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suugaku.co.uk |
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