On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 9:28 AM Jonathan Dowland wrote: > Thanks for expressing this so well! For folks interested in working with > historical software, historical toolkits are vital. It was for this > reason I am sad at the glee with which people removed Qt4 from the > archive, and similar such things. But at the same time you are > right that packaged F/OSS software really should migrate > toolkits eventually. Or at least the vast majority of it should.
I wonder if flatpak/snap would be a good way to preserve historical software. At least some folks are thinking that way: https://ubuntu.com/blog/how-to-preserve-old-software-with-snaps -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise