I've gone to the #bitrig IRC channel and I've gotten an answer.
Bitrig is dead-dead. As you see in the ensuing logs, the IRC
channel has 13 users incl. myself, none of whom I believe
currently use Bitrig.
22/09 00:31.46
-> MelMalik a rejoint #bitrig
22/09 00:31.46 -- Le titre pour #bitrig est "All hope abandon ye
who enter here."
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22/09 00:32.03 < MelMalik> That's definitely a topic.
22/09 00:33.27 < MelMalik> Charlotte Koch from pkgsrc
writes on the pkgsrc mailing list, "does it make sense to keep
Bitrig support in pkgsrc?" To the extent that there remains a
Bitrig community, I proffer that it makes sense to confront said
community with this information.
22/09 04:00.26 <@drahn> essentially, no. there is no sense
in keeping Bitrig support.
22/09 04:06.55 < MelMalik> thanks.
22/09 04:07.27 < MelMalik> and may I ask your relation to
the Bitrig project, drahn ?
22/09 04:11.18 <@drahn> ex-developer (the only one left
here)
22/09 04:11.54 <@drahn> the last work that occurred on
bitrig was arm64 port which I was working on.
22/09 04:12.27 < MelMalik> thank you
22/09 04:12.39 < MelMalik> and do I have your permission
to release this to the pkgsrc-users mailing list?
22/09 04:12.47 <@drahn> sure.
22/09 04:12.51 < MelMalik> thank you.
It appears that the last commit to their source gate was in 2017 (https://github.com/bitrig/bitrig), and the website for the OS had its cert expire at ... Firefox says 5/9/2022 but I don't know if that's the 5th of Sept or the 9th of May.
Wikipedia claims that it was based on OpenBSD and that OpenBSD has merged most of their changes.
How different is Bitrig from OpenBSD?
On 9/21/22 23:07, Charlotte Koch wrote:
Hi,
Does it make sense to keep Bitrig support in pkgsrc?
I have the feeling that Bitrig *in general* is somehow less used --
i.e., "more dead" -- than even the other exotic OSes which we support.
It's not retro or fun, it's just... gone. I know that sounds kinda
harsh, but it is genuinely my impression of things.
But maybe someone more clued in to the Bitrig, uh, ecosystem has a
better idea of what to do about it (if anything at all).
Charlotte
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