Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 13:08:21 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> Cc: ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r493853 - in head: Mk astro/opencpn audio/audacity audio/mbox audio/py-karaoke audio/spek audio/wxguitar cad/gspiceui cad/kicad cad/kicad-devel comms/cwstudio comms/freedv comms/gnuradi... Message-ID: <20190226130821.GA39566@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20190225141727.qcxl5luvegz2y4ne@ivaldir.net> References: <201902251247.x1PClL83036076@repo.freebsd.org> <20190225133725.GA78797@FreeBSD.org> <20190225141727.qcxl5luvegz2y4ne@ivaldir.net>
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On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 03:17:27PM +0100, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 01:37:25PM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 12:47:20PM +0000, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > > > New Revision: 493853 > > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/493853 > > > > > > Log: > > > wxGTK3.0: switch to gtk3 and webkit2 > > > > Ouch. This is pretty big regression for me. How about providing > > two flavors of wxGTK ports so I can link my stuff against gtk20? > > it is hard to maintain those toolkits, gtk20 is on the way to die > you know, It's certainly not, are you confusing it with gtk12? ;-) > flavors could be provided but at the price of hard and heavy > maintenance which I don't want on such ports. Webkit1 is deprecated > and forbidden now, and a gtk2 flavor will require that. I've thought Webkit support is optional; gtk20 flavor could just be offered without this, admittedly useless, option. > trying to save dead projects (gtk20 is at a dead end) is not the best > way to help the project, looking forward is the way to go Most of my desktop software stack is gtk20-based, it's a very popular toolkit and I see no reasons for it to go. It's very stable and asks for very little maintenance. If gnome@, you, or whoever does not want to maintain it, I'll gladly pick it up. ./danfe
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