On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 1:27 AM, Chen Lei wrote: > > > 2010/5/10 Orcan Ogetbil >> >> On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Chen Lei wrote: >> > >> > swami(svn) now use gtk2, don't worry about this, it has a quite active >> > upstream. >> > >> >> I wonder where you got that information. The gtk2 port was stalled a >> while ago and it is not functional. The author (he is also a >> fluidsynth dev) was in exile until yesterday. He just came back to say >> that he won't be able to find time to do programming for a while >> longer. >> just for reference: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/fluid-dev/2010-05/msg00001.html >> I don't see swami-2 out (or have a functional trunk) in the near future. >> > > I saw him commit the svn two month ago and change the public information one > month ago. I think the project is still active. > Yeah that is one of the only two swami commits in the last 2 years. Anyway, do we have a Fedora policy to remove software just because they are old and unmaintained upstream? If there is a happy userbase and a maintainer willing to take care of the package, what is the big deal? [cut] > As I mentoned below, some packges need update to the > lastest release badly to get rid of gtk+ 1.2. And some packages can safely > retire from fedora, e.g. xmms. > At that point you break a cult. xmms still has a stubbornly loyal fan base (just go to #fedora and start talking about it). Unlike almost everything else, xmms never fails to work. We don't want to get people upset, do we? Orcan -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
