On Fri, May 7, 2021 at 12:17 PM Jerry James <loganjerry(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, May 7, 2021 at 9:45 AM Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro(a)gnome.org> wrote:
> Um... not that I know of.
>
> Honestly, I don't know anything about GLib 1 other than that it's very
> old. I think if I were trying to port Sagemath, I would just upgrade
> the build system to GLib 2 and see how many compiler errors you get....
It turns out that surf-geometry is the only package on that list that
directly depends on glib 1. The others depend on surf-geometry,
directly or transitively. That's a very old (and, frankly, buggy)
piece of software there. I'll see what can be done with it.
GLib 2 was quite compatible with GLib 1 - there were lots of additions
but few breaking changes. But it looks like the dependency in
surf-geometry is a GTK 1 user interface (written in C++ with a bit of
custom glue, with Xlib usage mixed in.) and a GTK 1 to GTK 2 port is
more work. Not that hard for someone experienced in the GTK *of that
time* , but at this point, it would be like translating Chaucer into
Elizabethan English. And porting to GTK 3 or GTK 4 would be a bigger
job. I think this pretty clearly falls into the "if someone cared
about this GUI, they would have ported it from GTK 1 long ago" bucket.
But it also looks like it could just be disabled without affecting
anything else.
Owen