03:08 <darfo> Is it required that port names in core/opt/xorg that are not built from source have a -bin suffix?

04:28 <jaeger> Don't think so

08:22 <beerman> which port are you thinking about darfo?

11:52 <farkuhar> The obvious offender is ncdu. When first resurrected after a long absence, it _was_ being built from source. But it requires a Zig compiler, which has a tendency to break with each LLVM update, so I fell back to a precompiled binary.

11:58 <farkuhar> Admittedly I didn't dig very deep to see what kind of patching Zig would need, to work with LLVM 19. If there's more interest in software written in Zig, I can put more resources into having a port for that toolchain.

12:02 <beerman> oh, okay. I personally like the -bin suffix since we are pretty much a source distro, just makes sense to add it for that extra visibility.

12:30 <farkuhar> If I recall correctly, LLVM was on version 18.1.8 when I got Zig to build without problems. When LLVM 19 had been out for a while, with not much action upstream on making Zig play nicely with it, I worried that maintaining a port for Zig would be too much effort.

12:35 <beerman> I played with zig a few years back but I have no use for it, so there is no need for the extra effort from my side. With that said, that's why I keep nodejs-lts-hydrogen around in contrib.

14:32 <darfo> it was ncdu

14:32 <darfo> after reading the developer said "The Zig language and compiler are still somewhat unstable" I lost interest.