Re: Mass bug filing: dependencies on GTK 2
On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 9:28 AM Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> Thanks for expressing this so well! For folks interested in working with
> historical software, historical toolkits are vital. It was for this
> reason I am sad at the glee with which people removed Qt4 from the
> archive, and similar such things. But at the same time you are
> right that packaged F/OSS software really should migrate
> toolkits eventually. Or at least the vast majority of it should.
I wonder if flatpak/snap would be a good way to preserve historical
software. At least some folks are thinking that way:
https://ubuntu.com/blog/how-to-preserve-old-software-with-snaps
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pabs
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