On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 10:18:59PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi David and Petr, > > as you can see below, we can not ship gwyddion - at least not in its > current form with GUI if it will stick to GTK-2+ toolkit. Do you > see any chance to port it to GTK-3+?
There is no way to port to GTK+3 without breaking backward compatibility. We value backward compatibility. Some time not that long ago Debian was *the* distribution which supported the widest range of software. Now you are removing GTK+2 when Fedora still offers GTK+1? This is bat shit crazy. There will be probably GTK+5 released before we would be able to port to GTK+3. GTK+2 is *the* *stable* *version*. No one who does actual software development can afford to spend 3/4 of time and effort constantly porting to some new GTK+ nonsense and deal with neverending deprecations. If Debian does not support GTK+2 we will have to tell users to avoid it. Regards, Yeti
