On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Bill Nottingham notting@redhat.com wrote:
Kevin Kofler (kevin.kofler@chello.at) said:
I think migrating without shipping parallel versions of Python at any point is a completely unrealistic dream. Just look at how many packages still depend on qt3 and kdelibs3, and how there are still packages depending on gtk+-1.2 even when plans for GTK+ 3 are already ongoing.
The packages that still depend on GTK1 are all effectively dead, IMO. At some point, you have to cull the corpses.
Also, GTK+ 3 is not likely anytime soon, and by soon I mean anytime before the next 5 years. The discussions so far have a similar motiviation as Python 3000; effectively a housecleaning without any really compelling reason to jump.