On Mon, 2020-08-03 at 10:34 +1000, David Bannon wrote: > Ben, I am not sure if I am allowed to answer here, don't want Bart to > slap me down again. > > If I have it wrong again, very sorry, will withdraw.... > > > On 3/8/20 4:34 am, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Gtk+ 2 is deprecated, and we should not add new applications using it. > > So it sounds like the best option for now would be to build it with Qt > > support only. Why is that limited to 64-bit architectures? > > Ben, most distros are still shipping GTK2 and most don't ship Qt5. So, > at present, it sort of makes sense to use GTK2 from the point of view of > the average user. I am only talking about what should be done in an official Debian package here. It you build a generic binary for Linux then Gtk+ 2 may well be the better option. > The point is that with Lazarus, its trivial to switch > from GTK2 to QT5 at compile time so, in a way, tomboy-ng is not really a > GTK2 app, it can be what ever is decided at compile time. > > The Qt5 version is dependent of a shim library, libqt5pas that is > available in most newer distributions but 64bit only. Thats apparently > because the upstream libraries that are needed to link to it are not > available. Debian has it for 32-bit and 64-bit Arm and x86 architectures, plus 32-bit MIPS. [...] > That all sounds great. I am starting to understand the Debian process, > but just starting ! You should probably join the debian-mentors mailing list and send any questions there. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings For every complex problem there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
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