and legacy software Re: pyorbit

[Sérgio Basto]

On Qua, 2015-07-29 at 10:05 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-07-29 at 12:47 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > On Tue, 28 Jul 2015 21:27:45 +0100, Sérgio Basto wrote:
> > 
> > > As I have thought for some time,  I think we should have a team to 
> > > keep
> > > packages and make migrations like gtk2 to gkt3, libgnome2, pyorbit,
> > > gnome-python2, pyhton2 to python3 , qt3 etc etc
> > 
> > Wishful thinking. Porting from gtk2 to gtk3 is non-trivial or not 
> > even
> > feasible in all cases (without dropping some 
> > features/implementations).
> > Some developers are unhappy with gtk3. Others switch to Qt.
> 
> There is little reason to switch from gtk2 to gtk3 if you are happy
> with gtk2 and don't want any newfangled stuff. gtk2 will be maintained
> for the forseeable future.
> 
> Its a different story for the other GNOME2 era libraries mentioned
> here: libgnome, orbit, gnome-python2 - porting away from those is long
> -overdue if you haven't yet.

That is the kind of information that I'm looking for , ORBit and ORBit2
this stills works ? 

Thanks, 
-- 
Sérgio M. B.