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From:
Theo Buehler <tb@theobuehler.org>
Subject:
Re: retire devel/py-uncompyle6?
To:
ports <ports@openbsd.org>
Date:
Wed, 18 Dec 2024 11:13:37 +0100

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On Wed, Dec 18, 2024 at 10:08:01AM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> uncompyle6 often breaks with Python updates (the version we have
> now won't run on Python 3.12 and newer versions require newer
> setuptools which is a bit awkward to handle in ports at the
> moment). It's not used by other ports.
> 
> Furthermore at runtime it only targets decompiling bytecode up
> to Python 3.9, so it's not of very wide use on OpenBSD where
> ports/packages are using newer versions, so it doesn't seem hugely
> useful to have in ports at this point.
> 
> If needed, it can be installed easily in a venv.
> 
> OK to remove?

Also, there aren't that many distributions that bother to package it.

ok