[Slackbuilds-users] D Woodfall's builds (aka dive, aka bedlam)

[David Chmelik]

On 26/07/2026 00:19, B. Watson wrote:
> Unfortunately, David Woodfall has been gone for 3 years and it's time
> to find new maintainers for his builds.
>
> Would anyone be interested in adopting any of these?
>
> calc: calc (C-style arbitrary precision calculator)
I'm interested in calc and maybe some others, though my SlackBuilds have 
kind of been on hold because of needing to make some major improvements, 
and not knowing how, during family issues, so if someone else wants 
that, fine: I just don't want to see it go.

> ph: ph (A fast Slackware Package History tool)
I hope someone takes ph and would consider it.

> purple-facebook: purple-facebook (Facebook protocol plugin for libpurple)
As a heavy long-time user, I can safely say purple-facebook is dead: all 
third-party Meta/FB/IG/WA stopped working years ago because of their 
restrictions/breakage (except really restricted graphical stuff maybe 
like running a web login in an electron client)

> regionset: regionset (set dvd drive region)
That one is interesting/important but doubt I'll take it... quite a 
several/few are; just don't want to get overloaded, but I want to keep 
updated on what happens to dive's--are orphaned SlackBuilds eventually 
removed?  I orphaned Mathics and all dependencies I worked on (some 
people maybe took over some dependencies or might consider, because some 
were used) because it's a 'mess of Python dependencies' (and the mess is 
growing as such)... kind of would like to see it continue, but may have 
gone beyond what I can handle for what it's worth when there's other 
stuff like Wolfram Engine.
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