Re: remove vncviewer (given tigervnc)

[steve%prd.co.uk@localhost (Steve Blinkhorn)]

Well, I have still to get tigervnc to work reliably on 9.2 (my office
network currently runs on an old tightvnc version of Xvnc) and I've
been grateful for net/vncviewer providing a dependable known-to-work
access method in debugging.  FWIW the Xvnc I use is preserved from 7.x
and runs for months on end without problems.  The tigervnc version is
pretty much guaranteed to crash within 48 hours, usually at a most
inconvenient moment and with no helpful error messages.  Most likely a
configuration issue I imagine, but I use NetBSD as a platform for
other things, and value being asble to fall back onto older,
known-to-work versions when the latest-and-best doesn't drop in
without major effort.  Which is why, since access to older pkgsrc
binaries from previous major releases is no longer available, I have to
be more circumspect in what I rely on.

'Legacy software' is a pejorqative term invented by people who want to
sell you something els.  But if I left you a legacy, why would you
want to	turn it down or set fire to it?

"Move fast and break things" always struck me as the philosophy of a
toddler with ADHD and anger management problems.  "Be smart and build
better" works better in a collaborative world.  Or, to misquote
Wittgenstein, "Don't kick the ladder away until you are sure you
haven't left your toolbag at the bottom".

Completely OTT as a response to your modest proposal I know, I just
get philosoiphical around New Year.

Of which please have a happy one.

--
Steve Blinkhorn <steve%prd.co.uk@localhost>

> 
You wrote:
> net/vncviewer no longer compiles with gcc 14. After fixing the obvious
> configure script issues, I see errors of the form
> 
>   ld: /usr/lib/crt0.o: in function `___start':                                  
>   /usr/src/lib/csu/common/crt0-common.c:375:(.text+0x377): undefined reference to `main'                                                                      
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> and I find the stdlib.h part of                                                 
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>   c++ -I/usr/include -I/usr/X11R7/include #ifdef\ __cplusplus #include\ \<stdlib.h\> #endif -I.. -O2 -I/usr/include -I/usr/X11R7/include -Wall -c Exception.cxx                                                                  
> really bizarre.                                                                 
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> It seems however that vncviewer has developed via a variety of projects into
> tigervnc. net/tigervnc builds just fine.
> 
> I propose therefore to remove vncviewer given that tigervnc is working and
> in the tree (and with the same licence).
> 
> Comments?
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Patrick
>