On Sunday, April 10, 2011 13:13:42 Jelle van der Waa wrote: > On Sun, 2011-04-10 at 19:40 +0300, Alper Kanat wrote: > > s/failback/fallback/g > > > > sorry for the typo.. > > > > --- > > Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? > > > > On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 19:39, Alper Kanat <tunix@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hello Fellow Archers, > > > > > > Most people say that Arch is cutting edge and saving GNOME2 as gnome2 > > > is not the the Arch way. I know that packaging and maintaining GNOME2 > > > is a hard task that no devs would want to take care of and that we'll > > > most likely be seeing unofficial repositories but what about python? > > > Despite the upstream python is 3.x, we still have python2 for > > > failback? So is that the Arch way? > > quote from python.org > The current production versions are Python 2.7.1 and Python 3.2. > > Start with one of these versions for learning Python or if you > want the most stability; they're both considered stable > production releases.now. > > While with GNOME it's the case that GNOME2 is dead , SO LONG LIVE > GNOME3!! > > *jelly drinks beer with his gnome friends That was the point I was trying to make. GNOME 2 is being dropped not just because GNOME 3 is here, but because upstream is dropping it and nobody wants to go through the trouble to try to maintain something entirely unsupported upstream. And, for the millionth time, when a shared library GNOME 2 uses gets a major version bump, there goes any semblance of compatibility it would have.
