On Wed, 2018-12-05 at 00:24 -0500, Alejandro Imass wrote: > On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 12:14 AM Alejandro Imass <aim...@yabarana.com> > wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 11:58 PM timothy b via dia-list < > > dia-list@gnome.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > The question isn’t so much as to what utilities that Día uses, > > > nor what platform is managing the code. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > The discussion should be about is there anyone that wants to > > > maintain Dia for Windows, and who is prepared to maintain Día for > > > Linux. > > > > > > > > > > > > > Also, you are forgetting the Mac binaries. Although the MacPorts > > version works flawlessly at least up to High Sierra. Not sure who > > maintains the MacPorts version but it could be derived from the > > FreeBSD ports (not sure), and these distros are compiled so they > > are generally easier to maintain that installable binaries. > > > > Linux versions would be generally no-issue since they are mostly > > maintained by the two main distribution sources: RPM and DEB. > > > > > Until those to questions are answered, any other discussion is > > > academic. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Disagree. I don't think that maintaining the Windows and Mac > > binaries solves the underlying problem here. Maintaining those > > binaries is probably very tedious and people will avoid this like > > the plague. Precisely the problem is aging technology (e.g. GTK2) > > that may eventually prove impossible to maintain. > > > > > > > > > > For reference. One day, in the very near future we may wake up and > find DIA has been removed from Linux distros altogether: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=885686 > > "As announced [1], we do not intend to release Debian 10 "Buster" > with the old libgnome (and related) libraries. These libraries have > been deprecated and unmaintained for several years." > > So it's not an academic discussion. DIA as it stands is really on > it's way out but no one seems to understand the severity of no > releases since 2010.
Agreed, removing the likes of libgnome* and others should be a top priority so we can get some kind of release together ASAP > > > > > > _______________________________________________dia-list mailing > listdia-l...@gnome.org > https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmail.gnome.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fdia-list&data=02%7C01%7C%7C43fce4e6865945074bdb08d65a7217f9%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636795843406325651&sdata=pAKIZreFjufhFV2aMwcF65mnUAPbks6iD0gXIpS5wRo%3D&reserved=0 > FAQ at > https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flive.gnome.org%2FDia%2FFaq&data=02%7C01%7C%7C43fce4e6865945074bdb08d65a7217f9%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636795843406325651&sdata=a1rBM47WSuaO9fMUq8HQqh0QpnehvUw9pQiNeZMUzKk%3D&reserved=0 > Main page at > https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flive.gnome.org%2FDia&data=02%7C01%7C%7C43fce4e6865945074bdb08d65a7217f9%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636795843406325651&sdata=qVjIF%2B6pdlOoOHzlPwneTvDmc3dG%2BrkABLc0DLWiZ90%3D&reserved=0 > -- Zander Brown <zbr...@gnome.org> GNOME
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