From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 08FB9138334 for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2018 00:05:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C1B2CE0929; Wed, 27 Jun 2018 00:04:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx-out2.startmail.com (mx-out2.startmail.com [145.131.90.155]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8C98DE0909 for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2018 00:04:34 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2018 19:03:26 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=startmail.com; s=2017-11; t=1530057873; bh=fwl1w+OyntyF6vx604hCI3nW2lrPFjdnylZJmmlKKCk=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=kxq0Fs5qiid+BXlyI9xBVOrMl9wKIS2DfNkIwp/PISkqLAfgFkntaT481xM4ZUTPv Qrc2yczo2gvpjw2I0YQsuQejpRWCPAOdhUbnmCT9bQx7z0cV3ub+u1tcL1RzuFXZFg SWpSm4fYowdfd9/TIbxYXTcjuBPH88F9uXbvrv/77HDenSPzWyIa1UyUQP6smkFPr/ Ahvyt46yWHck1+YqiWS06ZvRgRNVRXcCOmYCQKvZEJtNelsGT4mW8Ev+Wi2FPijpAE Ye4gauRhZ5xFKSlqKaZ76XW4JrnieQ0oBeAq7HHKsXCyVtp7kWf/aO+GoCrqUTlA+s 2158/bVq+LWcg== From: "Marty E. Plummer" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Idea for a new project: gentoo-libs Message-ID: <20180627000326.2fudec4cqy2sakn5@proprietary-killer> References: <20180623025046.djmsv44moxuqkv6t@proprietary-killer> <20180625075947.03bd4875@computer> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20180625075947.03bd4875@computer> X-Archives-Salt: 50575fb5-9e9e-4508-8446-1cc98ec00911 X-Archives-Hash: cec90ba012268372360eece500d7e437 On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 07:59:47AM +0200, Hanno Böck wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jun 2018 21:50:50 -0500 > "Marty E. Plummer" wrote: > > > So, as you may be aware I've been doing some work on moving bzip2 to > > an autotools based build. Recently I've ran into app-crypt/mhash, > > which is in a semi-abandoned state (talking with the maintainer on > > twitter atm), and I was thinking it may be a good idea to set up a > > project for keeping these semi-abandoned and really-abandoned > > libraries and projects up to date and such. > > This is a common problem, however if you want to make this reasonable > you wouldn't make it a gentoo thing, but a cross-distro effort. The > idea has been tossed around a lot, but noone yet started implementing > it. > > However keeping things alive may not always be the right option. > There's a reason mcrypt is abandoned. It's an ancient crypto library, mhash, not mcrypt. I've not loked at mcrypt at all yet, so I have no ideas as to its status. > crypto is moving forward, there are better options. THe main user of > mcrypt was PHP, and PHP is abandoning it with 7.2. (There are 2 other > users in the gentoo tree of libmcrypt, which are both rather obscure > packages - nsca and elettra.) > > -- > Hanno Böck > https://hboeck.de/ > > mail/jabber: hanno@hboeck.de > GPG: FE73757FA60E4E21B937579FA5880072BBB51E42 >