Opened 6 hours ago
Last modified 5 hours ago
#71310 new defect
Stop using xercesc3
| Reported by: | ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt) | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | ports | Version: | |
| Keywords: | Cc: | arjen@…, mbrethen, mojca (Mojca Miklavec), nilason (Nicklas Larsson), ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt), nerdling (Jeremy Lavergne), scantor (Scott Cantor), support@…, tenomoto (Takeshi Enomoto), remkos (Remko Scharroo), paumard, lockhart (Thomas Lockhart), Veence (Vincent), barracuda156 | |
| Port: | freecad cegui libmemcached wt sigil-qt4 enigma gdal pcraster pdal h3dapi opensaml Gyoto aircraft_oap esmf geant4 nco sumo shibboleth xml-security-c xmltooling blahtexml xalanc xercesc3 xqilla zorba |
Description
The developer of xercesc3 gives notice that it should not be used anymore:
I'd strongly advise pulling or at least deprecating (don't know the official process) all the Macports relying on Xerces, they're all at risk using this code or Xalan. I am the last maintainer left, I don't support the Mac for my own software anymore, and once I'm fully off Xerces in a few years, I seriously doubt it has a future unless somethiing changes.
Whatever the official process is for retiring ports, I would be getting the crank turning on that.
Please try to remove the xercesc3 dependency from your ports. If it is a mandatory dependency, please work with the upstream developers to get it removed from their code.
Change History (5)
comment:1 Changed 6 hours ago by scantor (Scott Cantor)
comment:2 Changed 6 hours ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)
Yes please! We don't want MacPorts to be a museum, but we also don't want to just remove a port that others still depend on, so it can take some work before an old library can be removed.
comment:3 Changed 6 hours ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)
comment:4 Changed 5 hours ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)
| Port: | freecad cegui cegui libmemcached wt sigil-qt4 enigma gdal pcraster pdal h3dapi opensaml Gyoto aircraft_oap esmf geant4 nco sumo shibboleth xml-security-c xmltooling blahtexml xalanc xercesc3 xqilla zorba → freecad cegui libmemcached wt sigil-qt4 enigma gdal pcraster pdal h3dapi opensaml Gyoto aircraft_oap esmf geant4 nco sumo shibboleth xml-security-c xmltooling blahtexml xalanc xercesc3 xqilla zorba |
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- aircraft_oap requires xerces-c: https://github.com/NCAR/aircraft_oap/issues/4
- enigma requires xerces-c: https://github.com/Enigma-Game/Enigma/issues/99
comment:5 Changed 5 hours ago by paumard
Gyoto can be built without xerces-c but with a severe cost on functionality: https://github.com/gyoto/Gyoto/issues/25
Notably regarding a few of mine:
None of that code is really supported for the Mac now, as of a few years back, that's why I haven't been maintaining those ports very actively.
I will open a similar ticket to this one against all those ports now that I know that's appropriate to do.