From: Benny M. <ben...@gm...> - 2012-07-24 15:07:29
|
2012/7/24 John Ralls <jr...@ce...> > > > It occurs to me that we're being a bit aggressive in migrating to pygi: > Thanks to Bug 679654 [1] (and maybe others), Gramps won't actually run on > any current released Gtk. That means that even after the next release cycle > it's only going to work on bleeding-edge distros like Ubuntu and Debian > Unstable. That's going to freeze out a lot of users. > 4.0 is for april 2014. That is still a long way of. We will need the time to verify everything works. It will indeed only work on newer distro's, the current version of Gramps will keep working however, and is solid. GTK3 is now what, a year+ released? I hate spending time upgrading to new versions, but unfortunately, to stand still is to die. How long still will python 2.x be the default installed python? How long still will pygtk be packaged? We have no other option than to go along. Don't forget that soon (2 years) all new computers will have touchscreens, and modern software will be expected to make use of it. It is hateful to work with some old proprietary computing methods, like eg matlab code, but the backward compatibility is something I very much appreciate. I don't think any of my OSS code of 3 years ago will still work on a newly installed linux due to changed APIs, which is sad. Benny |