On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 6:42 PM, Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@xxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 2015-01-03 at 14:58 +0800, Christopher Meng wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'd like to know why yaws was retired as it's a Web server still being >> used by many people, can someone tell me what happened there in the >> past? >> >> I feel unaccountably unhappy when I see that almost other major >> distributions ship it still with the latest 1.99 version however I can >> only install yaws in EPEL7 only with a dated 1.98 version. > > Well, noone volunteered to maintain it? > > I sort of needed it for EPEL until a couple of months ago so I kept it > alive until recently where another volunteer picked it up. > > If you need it outside of EPEL free to re-add it I guess? The EPEL > package should work fine with Fedora and I think update to 1.99 will be > just a minimal effort. I'll review it for you if you file a review > request. Be grateful to see that it's still alive in EPEL channel, with an elder version though. I just wandered in the VZ systems and then found yaws is no longer available for Fedora users, that'd be unhandy for deploying packages. I will submit review requests later as I'm still out of time. Thanks! -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
