From: Benny M. <ben...@gm...> - 2013-01-14 08:54:02
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2013/1/14 John Ralls <jr...@ce...> > > But based on downloads [1], 71% of our 3.4.2 users are on MSWin, 15% on > OSX, and 14% on Linux. Note that 3.4.2 is too recent even to be included in > Ubuntu 12-10 and probably anywhere else, so that's a pretty good > representation of people who care enough to go seek out a new version. > What are we actually discussing about? Software gets adapted to new technologies, people are still happy with the old ones, people only upgrade if a certain bug or feature is really annoying or something they want and seek out. For me it was not needed to deprecate pygtk, but that was done, and we have to live with it. This discussion is not really going in a direction, just stating facts. Gramps 4.0 has hardly any new features compared to 3.4, so our 3.4 users are good till 2014 anyway by design, by which time I hope having Gramps 4.0 out and other programs based on the same technologies, causes some people who care about their platform to submit patches against the problematic code bases. If there are no programs using gi with python3, there is also little push to fix that issue, that has always been the nature of OSS. There is not much more we can do, pygtk and python2 will go the way of dodo no matter what. Did we prepare too soon for that? Perhaps. Personally, I hate technology changes as it stops us from having time for real features, so I'm always happy when they're done. Benny |