[ This has been posted on Gentoo User, but in case it hasn't been seen by discussants at Gentoo Dev, here it is. It seems clear upstream isn't dead, simply quiet ]
On 1/28/23 05:35, Peter Humphrey wrote: > I'm actually the one who first heard that the original maintainer had died. > I had written to him about some support issue, and got a belated reply > from his brother. Upstream is not dead at all, > the activity level is just fairly low. > I tried to post to -dev, but my message never got through, > not sure if it's because I'm not a dev or made some other error in sending. > The homepage is at htttps://gkrellm.srcbox.net > with source at https://git.srcbox.net/gkrellm/gkrellm. > The main problem is that is still uses gtk+2. > They do have an open issue about that, > but most of the discussion has been on why it would be so hard to upgrade. > There is apparently a lot of fairly low-level graphics stuff going on > and Bill himself (the original maintainer) > said something like the conversion to gkt+3 would be difficult, > but to go to gtk+4 would essentially be a re-write. > Jack -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
