Better still, to At. Roger G3YTN
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On 8 May 2020, 12:57, at 12:57, Richard Shaw hobbes1069@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 11:28 AM Michael Downey N2UN n2un@arrl.net wrote:
Hi Roger,
On Fri, May 8, 2020, at 08:59, Roger Hill wrote:
What I don't understand with the current move to produce a
'flatpack'
version of chirp, is why the effort is not being expended to
migrate
chirp to version 3 of Python. Python version 2 is end of life.
Period.
I'd agree. Python 2 won't be supported any more which could prove problematic in many ways. IMHO, shipping a flatpak so Python 2 can
still be
provided should be seen more as "life support" and not a cure, which
should
still be a high priority for those that are able to do so. (We should remember that Python 3 was first released in December 2008.) :-)
And Gtk2 (and by extension pygtk2) are pretty ancient, so it would be good to transition to Gtk3 at the same time.
The skills to create a flatpak are likely different than those needed to
migrate to Python 3, so the efforts need not be mutually exclusive.
There
is an argument one could make for sticking with the flatpak approach
even
when Python is upgraded.
Very true.
Thanks, Richard KF5OIM
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