On Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:35:46 +0100 Morten Kjeldgaard <mok@bioxray.au.dk> wrote: > I am quite willing to adopt the package and maintain it, but I > couldn't find > it on the list of orphans. Maybe I didn't look hard enough? That list > is enormous... :-( All the more reason to remove any package that has been orphaned since before the Etch release before Lenny. > On a side note, I already am attempting to adopt a companion for GTK+ > 1.2, namely gktglarea [1]. The modified package is on mentors and I am > looking for > a sponsor [2] (nudge nudge :-)) gtkglarea already has a Gtk+2.0 version, why add the 1.2 version again? It is not a companion, it is an abandoned reverse dependency that is dead upstream, unmaintained, unloved and unwanted. See #492994 I covered this issue when looking at the NMU for gdis to use libgtkgl2.0-dev instead. I think we should remove gtkglarea, not be sponsoring its adoption. Barry - PLEASE do not continue with the request for sponsorship of gtkglarea. > > In our experience with GAMGI (http://www.gamgi.org/), GTK+ 1.2 was > > indeed useful to prepare a preliminary package that helped to > > convince Upstream to GTK 2.0. > > Good point! No, not a good point at all, a very poor point. GTK+2.0 is just as simple to use from a clean codebase. There is no need to build for Gtk1.2 and then port to Gtk+2.0 - just go straight for 2.0. (And yes, I have done this more than once and I can attest from real experience that Gtk1.2 is not a sane development choice for *ANY* project. Newly written code simply must not use Gtk1.2, it is completely insane to do so.) > > I am the first author of GAMGI (http://www.gamgi.org/), which > > depends on Mesa, Expat, Freetype 2, Glib 1, Gtk 1, Gtkglarea1, > > that's why I am so keen about compiling these libraries myself. No - the only sane choice for new code is glib2.0, Gtk+2.0 and libgtkgl2.0 - read the API docs, Gtk1.2 and glib1 are *NOT* for use with newly written code. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/
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