From: NP-Hardass <NP-Hardass@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] gtk/gtk2/gtk3 USE flag situation
Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 17:08:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5748B768.1090105@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1464358866.13834.59.camel@gentoo.org>
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On 05/27/2016 10:21 AM, Mart Raudsepp wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Despite it being 2016 and gtk2 pretty much dead, buried and forgotten
> upstream, many applications still support only gtk2, have subtle issues
> with their gtk3 port, or support both, with some of our userbase
> clinging to gtk2 for dubious political or aesthetical reasons.
>
> For the latter cases, despite GNOME teams policy and strong preference
> on not providing a choice and just choosing gtk2 or gtk3 (gtk3 if it's
> working as good as gtk2), some cases exist where the maintainers want
> to provide such choice. In some cases it is understandable for a short
> while during transition, e.g firefox. In other cases, it is purely for
> the sake of providing the choice of working with a deprecated toolkit,
> apparently.
>
> My highly biased essay aside, we need to finally globally agree on what
> we do in this situation. If we allow this choice at all, only for
> special cases, or widespread. And if this choice is provided, how do we
> name the USE flag.
>
I don't see the benefit of forcing people off of gtk2 to gtk3 when gtk2
is working just fine. gtk2 is entrenched, and will take a while to
migrate apps from. A parallel, why don't we just drop python2.7? It's
old, superseded, and plenty of things support python3.x. I disagree
with this logic. In my opinion, we should remove support for them when
it seems that it has been dropped by a majority of packages or unfixed
security issues make it not worth keeping around. I don't think we are
anywhere near that point.
[...]
> Thoughts? Agreements? Suggestions?
> I'm particularly interested in QA opinion here. I believe WilliamH
> wanted to spearhead this from their side.
>
>
> Regards,
> Mart Raudsepp
> Gentoo developer, GNOME team
>
Flag specific comments to follow in WilliamH's reply.
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-27 14:21 [gentoo-dev] [RFC] gtk/gtk2/gtk3 USE flag situation Mart Raudsepp
2016-05-27 15:02 ` Brian Dolbec
2016-05-27 16:35 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2016-05-27 17:17 ` Brian Dolbec
2016-05-27 15:34 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2016-05-27 15:40 ` William Hubbs
2016-05-27 17:28 ` rindeal
2016-05-27 18:23 ` M. J. Everitt
2016-05-27 21:22 ` NP-Hardass
2016-05-27 15:56 ` Patrick Lauer
2016-05-27 16:15 ` Austin English
2016-05-27 16:54 ` landis blackwell
2016-05-27 16:59 ` rindeal
2016-05-27 17:14 ` Anthony G. Basile
2016-05-27 17:44 ` William Hubbs
2016-05-27 17:55 ` Anthony G. Basile
2016-05-27 21:09 ` William Hubbs
2016-05-27 18:23 ` Mart Raudsepp
2016-05-27 18:28 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2016-05-27 19:06 ` Daniel Campbell
2016-05-30 15:17 ` Mart Raudsepp
2016-05-27 18:10 ` waltdnes
2016-05-27 18:26 ` Mart Raudsepp
2016-05-27 18:44 ` rindeal
2016-05-27 18:51 ` [gentoo-dev] [RFC] improper use of X Ian Stakenvicius
2016-05-27 18:57 ` [gentoo-dev] [RFC] gtk/gtk2/gtk3 USE flag situation Daniel Campbell
2016-05-27 21:45 ` NP-Hardass
2016-05-27 22:05 ` Daniel Campbell
2016-05-27 22:21 ` NP-Hardass
2016-05-30 20:46 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2016-06-06 15:37 ` NP-Hardass
2016-05-27 21:08 ` NP-Hardass [this message]
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