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authorDave Cottlehuber <dch@FreeBSD.org>2022-06-28 06:28:39 +0000
committerDave Cottlehuber <dch@FreeBSD.org>2022-06-28 06:32:30 +0000
commitab4964e6d96e9d3ac2c75c414dee85bf625a06fa (patch)
tree8f06b6af0be8a6ae2d439a6e2a07231237ed5619 /UPDATING
parentx11/py-i3-quickterm: update to 1.1 (diff)
*/*: Remove expired erlang and elixir ports
The rebar, rebar3 and mix tools are now more than a decade old, and are the preferred ways to fetch and install specific erlang and elixir modules, aside from core compilers, documentation, and custom build tools. See UPDATING and MOVED for details. https://www.freebsd.org/status/report-2021-07-2021-09/#_freebsd_erlang_ecosystem_ports_update archivers/erlang-snappy converters/erlang-base64url databases/elixir-calecto databases/elixir-db_connection databases/elixir-ecto databases/elixir-geo databases/elixir-mariaex databases/elixir-postgrex databases/elixir-timex_ecto databases/erlang-couchbeam databases/erlang-epgsql databases/erlang-eredis devel/elixir-apex devel/elixir-bson devel/elixir-cachex devel/elixir-calendar devel/elixir-combine devel/elixir-conform devel/elixir-connection devel/elixir-coverex devel/elixir-crontab devel/elixir-csv devel/elixir-decimal devel/elixir-deppie devel/elixir-dialyze devel/elixir-distillery devel/elixir-estree devel/elixir-eternal devel/elixir-exactor devel/elixir-excoveralls devel/elixir-exjsx devel/elixir-exprotobuf devel/elixir-gen_stage devel/elixir-gettext devel/elixir-inflex devel/elixir-libring devel/elixir-math devel/elixir-msgpax devel/elixir-nadia devel/elixir-nats devel/elixir-nimble_csv devel/elixir-paratize devel/elixir-plug devel/elixir-poison devel/elixir-quantum devel/elixir-smppex devel/elixir-timex devel/elixir-trailing_format_plug devel/elixir-tzdata devel/elixir-unsafe devel/erlang-bbmustache devel/erlang-certifi devel/erlang-cuttlefish devel/erlang-erlware_commons devel/erlang-gen_smtp devel/erlang-getopt devel/erlang-goldrush devel/erlang-hut devel/erlang-jobs devel/erlang-jsx devel/erlang-katana devel/erlang-lager devel/erlang-lager_syslog devel/erlang-meck devel/erlang-metrics devel/erlang-parse_trans devel/erlang-providers devel/erlang-ssl_verify_fun devel/erlang-unicode_util_compat dns/erlang-idna misc/elixir-mime misc/elixir-uuid misc/erlang-mimerl misc/erlang-mimetypes net/elixir-kafka_ex net/elixir-oauth2 net/erlang-ranch security/elixir-comeonin security/elixir-comeonin_i18n security/elixir-jose security/erlang-fast_tls security/erlang-jose textproc/elixir-earmark textproc/elixir-funnel textproc/elixir-sweet_xml textproc/erlang-edown textproc/erlang-fast_xml textproc/erlang-p1_utils textproc/erlang-yamerl www/elixir-html_entities www/elixir-html_sanitize_ex www/elixir-httpoison www/elixir-httpotion www/elixir-joken www/elixir-maru www/elixir-phoenix www/elixir-phoenix_ecto www/elixir-phoenix_html www/elixir-phoenix_pubsub www/elixir-webassembly www/erlang-cowboy www/erlang-cowlib www/erlang-hackney www/erlang-ibrowse www/erlang-mochiweb www/erlang-mochiweb-basho www/erlang-webmachine PR: 263694 Reviewed by: olgeni@FreeBSD.org Approved by: erlang (with hat) Sponsored by: SkunkWerks, GmbH
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@@ -5,6 +5,27 @@ they are unavoidable.
You should get into the habit of checking this file for changes each time
you update your ports collection, before attempting any port upgrades.
+20220628:
+ AFFECTS: users of Erlang and Elixir
+ AUTHOR: dch@FreeBSD.org
+
+ For more than a decade, the Elixir Mix tool and the Erlang rebar
+ or erlang.mk build tools have been the defacto way of installing
+ and managing packages for specific applications.
+
+ All main-stream applications, from Riak, CouchDB, RabbitMQ, Phoenix,
+ and Elixir, expect that packages are fetched and compiled into an OTP
+ Release, with in-built version locking, external package management.
+
+ There is no point in maintaining a large number of libraries, that
+ are used neither for development, nor operations.
+
+ Users are directed to https://rebar3.org/ https://erlang.mk/ or
+ https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/mix-otp/introduction-to-mix.html
+ to fetch custom packages.
+
+ https://www.freebsd.org/status/report-2021-07-2021-09/#_freebsd_erlang_ecosystem_ports_update
+
20220626:
AFFECTS: users of python
AUTHOR: thierry@FreeBSD.org