On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 6:39 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2014-09-29 08:35, Jan Alexander Steffens wrote: > >> On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 5:45 AM, Anatol Pomozov >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> This is the best thing we can do now. I briefly looked at vte 0.38 and >>> found that it contains *a lot* of API changes. It requires non-trivial >>> patches to port sakura and other applications. Let's leave the task of >>> API porting to the apps developers. >>> >> >> Well, at least in the apps I ported the API changes weren't that >> difficult to adapt to. But, they weren't dedicated terminal >> applications. IIRC features were removed where the best we could do >> would be stubbing them out. >> >> On another note, I wouldn't be opposed to using this opportunity to >> flip our package names around, so we'll have vte2, vte2.90 and vte. >> Or, if we want to match the library names, vte, vte2_90 and vte-2.91. >> Or maybe some other combination. In any case, vte3 isn't really the >> right name. >> > > Note that the whole reason for vte-common (the pty helper binary) is not > an issue anymore with latest vte3 anymore. Upstream has deprecated it and > disabled the build by default, I enabled it for now, but when we disable it > again, the binary can move to the vte2 package. > > I'm not very happy with having 2 outdated copies of vte in our repos > though, it's another old library that will not receive any maintenance at > all. I only want to package the older version in our repos if someone can > assure me that it will stay active for only 6 months, after that it should > disappear from repos and all applications that haven't been ported should > die together with it. >
The terminal plugin for Cairo Dock is now fully ported with the help of Anatol. I had a look at pantheon-terminal as well, but it's way out of my league. Changes are not straightforward for someone who does not speak Vala or C: some functions are deprecated and/or no longer available, and it's not just VTE :( I opened a bug report on Launchpad and am waiting for some feedback, but keeping the old one around for a little while would be nice.
