On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 10:48 -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > As for scientific software, nobody will find the time or the money to > > upgrade > > from GTK1.2 to GTK2 only for the beauty of it. People are rewarded on their > > new > > developments, not on code maintainance. > > Agree. But people might willing to invest some energy into porting > their eight year old applications so they run on any modern-day > distribution. And if they are sure their application runs with closed, > secure data, and if the application is production-quality and does not > need to be touched... Well, you can perfectly keep a cluster of Woody > machines for a long time!
Or a separate repository created for the purpose of giving a longer life for these applications using ancient technology. I'm all for (re)moving GTK+ 1.2 from Debian. See you, -- Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian Project
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