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On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 02:59:45PM +0000, Peter Stuge wrote: |
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> Hanno Böck 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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> Until there's a relevant flaw that will remain unfixed or there is |
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> significant incompatibility with infrastructure (recurse my argument) |
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> no signs actually exist. |
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Waiting until such a problem pops up and bites everyone before doing |
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anything about it doesn't sound like a good way to handle it. |
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> Assuming that there will be a significant maintenance burden which |
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> affects all uses doesn't seem rational - hence my question. |
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> The blog post shouldn't be misunderstood. The intended audience seems |
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> to be application developers, encouraging them to port applications, |
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> not so much distributions. |
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If an application never ports, do you expect the distribution to |
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maintain that package ad infinitum? |
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> Distributions quite often overlook that they wield much power, and |
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> thus also have much responsibility. |
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> Of course, GTK maintainers in Gentoo choose what to work on, and have |
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> made many (only?) excellent choices. |
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> I'm merely pleading for rational choices based on actual problems. |
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> //Peter |
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