From: Benny M. <ben...@gm...> - 2012-07-24 15:07:40
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Sorry, april 2013 off course 2012/7/24 Benny Malengier <ben...@gm...> > > > 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 > > |