Re: Let's retire original glib and gtk+

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On Fri, May 7, 2021 at 11:24 AM Owen Taylor <otaylor@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> GLib 2 was quite compatible with GLib 1 - there were lots of additions
> but few breaking changes. But it looks like the dependency in
> surf-geometry is a GTK 1 user interface (written in C++ with a bit of
> custom glue, with Xlib usage mixed in.) and a GTK 1 to GTK 2 port is
> more work. Not that hard for someone experienced in the GTK *of that
> time* , but at this point, it would be like translating Chaucer into
> Elizabethan English. And porting to GTK 3 or GTK 4 would be a bigger
> job. I think this pretty clearly falls into the "if someone cared
> about this GUI, they would have ported it from GTK 1 long ago" bucket.
>
> But it also looks like it could just be disabled without affecting
> anything else.

That's the conclusion I came to as well.  Paulo, will you be sad if we
turn off the surf-geometry GUI?
-- 
Jerry James
http://www.jamezone.org/
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