On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 12:29 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > How comes you expect each and every tool in Fedora but the autotools to > > be "current". > > That's it! > > OK, by Fedora 10 we need to start removing all sorts of not 'current' > things that aren't up to modern standards. > > First, toolkits! > > We need to remove gtk1, qt3, and for pete's sake, Xaw and Xaw3d. All > are obsolete, and users and developers are best served by upgrading > to more recent toolkits such as Qt4 and GTK2. > > The following 258 packages need ported by Fedora 10, or they will > be removed: +1 > Next step, languages. (That can follow in a different mail.) > After all, who needs old stuff like tcl, fortran, or Ada when we have > python, ruby, and C? +1 Sadly, you're joking. But I would love to get rid of the libraries you mentioned before. -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
