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From:
Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org>
Subject:
Re: remove telephony/sofia-sip
To:
Theo Buehler <tb@theobuehler.org>
Cc:
ports@openbsd.org, jasper@openbsd.org
Date:
Fri, 31 May 2024 08:53:04 +0100

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On 2024/05/31 04:11, Theo Buehler wrote:
> The sofia-sip port is very outdated. Upstream is dormant and points at
> 
> https://github.com/freeswitch/sofia-sip
> 
> which has seen many releases in the last dozen years.
> 
> There never has been a consumer of the library that I can find, so I
> guess the bundled utilities may have been of some use at some point.

Most likely it was done as a precursor to writing a port for freeswitch,
which didn't happen (it always was a pain to build, and wanted to use
its own versions of a dozen or so libraries and made it hard to use
system versions of them).

I don't think the utilities are particularly helpful.

> I suggest we remove the port, or else someone who cares about it should
> update it to a more recent version.

+1