On Fri, May 7, 2021 at 12:17 PM Jerry James <loganje...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, May 7, 2021 at 9:45 AM Michael Catanzaro <mcatanz...@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 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
