On Wed, 25 Mar 2026 at 15:17, Frédéric Brière <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dang, I was utterly convinced to be the last person left on this planet > still using xzgv nowadays! Imagine my surprise upon learning that there > are other people on this boat. (Including celebrities. ☺) > I am amazed, horrified, etc. > On Fri, Feb 20, 2026 at 10:29:16AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > > As far as I can tell, there is no active upstream anymore, and I am not > > aware of ongoing efforts to port xzgv to GTK3 or GTK4. > > Me, I was merely planning to keep a copy of libgtk2.0 around forever, > but given how this could actually be of use to other people, I decided > to take a stab at a porting attempt. (Despite my lack of experience > with GTK. Not that this kind of thing has ever stopped me before.) > > What I have so far is more of a proof-of-concept at this point, in that > it compiles, doesn't immediately crash, and appears to be able to > perform at least the bare minimum: > > https://github.com/fbriere/xzgv/tree/gtk-3 I am impressed, dismayed etc. If it's any encouragement (or perhaps the opposite), I did the Gtk1→2 port very much having never worked with Gtk before (or since!), and it was not hard. The down-side is that goodness knows what sort of crackpot non-idiomatic Gtk2 usage I left behind for you to unravel. Also be warned that proper testing might take a while; although I use > xzgv every day, that version includes several patches that would require > porting/merging before I would consider switching over. (I'm hesitating > between submitting these well-tested patches upstream *before* > finalizing the port, or porting first and submitting these now-rebased > no-longer-well-tested patches afterward. We'll see.) > I guess since the user community is sufficiently small, it's really up to you. If I had anything to do with it, I would be going for whatever is the best path to continuity, keeping xzgv in Debian without a break etc. The only other thing that occurs to me is whether Ardour's YTK would be a better/more stable target. If it gets into Debian, it's definitely worth considering. En tout cas, *chapeau* à tous ! I continue to maintain a couple of projects older than xzgv, and I think some people find that sort of long-term continuity even of software with but a handful of users extremely satisfying. -- Web: rrt.sc3d.org
