Re: No more support for GNUstep on FreeBSD

[David Chisnall]

Hi,

I dropped maintainership because I haven't actually used GNUstep or run 
FreeBSD on machines with displays for a while, so I wasn't able to test 
things well and didn't feel comfortable updating ports and claiming that 
they worked.  I am happy to help anyone who wants to update the ports. 
I believe that they should still work.  We test the runtime in CI on 
FreeBSD, at least.

I believe there is a new upstream for libdispatch, but I've not tried it.

David

On 25/10/2022 16:14, bruce wrote:
> I’m restarting a project of mine; it took some time to replace my dev 
> computer when it died. But now that I've gotten a new pc,I find GCD 
> (libdispatch) is no longer available on FreeBSD.  The Freshports page, 
> https://www.freshports.org/devel/libdispatch/ 
> <https://www.freshports.org/devel/libdispatch/>, shows the reason is the 
> port expired on 5/5/2020, so when I reinstalled it was no longer 
> available. It states that the build was broken for more than 6 months, 
> and when I look at the GNUstep entry, there is no longer a maintainer 
> for GNUstep on FreeBSD.
>
>
> Are there plans to reinstate support for FreeBSD? I can cope with 
> GNUsteps out of date documentation, but this lack of support is a hard 
> stop for my project.
>
>
> bruce