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Date:      Fri, 01 Feb 2019 15:29:12 +0100
From:      Matthias Fechner <idefix@fechner.net>
To:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Adam Weinberger <adamw@freebsd.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, owner-ports-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r491810 - in head/editors/vim: . files
Message-ID:  <813e3693817c56e75b71348831e354b1@fechner.net>
In-Reply-To: <20190201141856.GB9358@FreeBSD.org>
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Am 01.02.2019 15:18, schrieb Alexey Dokuchaev:
> On Fri, Feb 01, 2019 at 07:02:44AM -0700, Adam Weinberger wrote:
>> ...
>> Perhaps I mischaracterized the situation; it is definitely correct to
>> say that the discussion on freebsd-ports@ revealed nearly unanimous
>> agreement that people would prefer GTK3 be the default.
> 
> This saddens me a lot, in this case. :-(  There's nothing broken with
> Gtk+2 that would require a "fix" such as Gtk+3.  Is there any reason as
> to why switch at all, except higher version number?
> 
> ./danfe

what I understand from here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTK%2B

Development for GTK+2 has stopped and all remaining bugs will not be 
fixed.

So why do you want to keep on an old version that has known bugs if you 
can switch to a newer version that is maintained and bugs are fixed?

-- 
Gruß
Matthias



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