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On Mon, 8 Feb 2021 10:22:21 +0000 |
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Peter Stuge <peter@×××××.se> wrote: |
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> "It does mean, however, that GTK 2 has reached the end of its life. |
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> We will do one final 2.x release in the coming days, and we encourage |
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> everybody to port their GTK 2 applications to GTK 3 or 4." |
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I read that as there will be one more gtk2 release and none after that. |
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This seems to imply: |
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* When there's a security flaw in gtk2 there won't be a fix from |
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upstream. |
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* When there's an incompatibility with new infrastructure (e.g. new gcc |
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version / new glibc / changing API of libraries gtk depends on) there |
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will be no updates from upstream. |
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This means in all those instances maintainers will have to get patches |
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from somewhere. We'll likely end up with some form of |
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gtk-2.x-r[largenumber] with a large patchset at some point. |
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Maintaining that will be an increasing burden. |
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No urgency, but a sign to slowly move off gtk2. |
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Hanno Böck |
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https://hboeck.de/ |
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