On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Martti Kühne <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 12:39 PM, pauline martin <[email protected]> wrote: >> I don't know if this project has been discontinued or not, but it is flagged >> as out of date and I have spent a good amount of time trying to find >> somewhere to download the most recent release. I was not able to find a >> link anwhere to download the source from the website: >> http://customize.org/gDeskCal . If I could be pointed in the right >> direction for the source code of this project if it is still alive that >> would be wonderful. It looks like a wonderful application and at least two >> other packages in the AUR depend upon it so I would love to get it updated >> or if it is a dead project to get it removed from the AUR. The package is >> in the AUR as gdeskcal and the two packages that I found that depend on it >> are: gdeskcal-skins and gdeskcal-skin-simple. Of the three only one is >> being currently maintained. I would be willing to maintain the other two if >> they are not a dead project. That one maintained project is using sources >> from a different site than the main project is hosted on. The maintainer is >> Syntheed. If I am reading the source right his sources are from freebsd, so >> it is not of any help locating the original program if it is still in >> development. >> >> Sincerely, >> Pauline123 > > > hello > > There is a source package from fedora [1], also I was able to find the > author's blog [2]. However there seems to be no more reference from > the author to the project in question, so I'm positive the project is > dead. Now with the upcoming deprecation of python2, I'm not sure if it > makes any sense to keep the project either way. Also I have not come > accross a replacement for it, either, and I'm not really sure what > functionality is expected, except for it being a purely visual toy. > However I have upgraded the package to fit current packaging standards > and to use the fedora source for now. > > regards > mar77i > > [1] > http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/3/srodzaj/2/search/gdeskcal-1.01-2.fc10.src.rpm > [2] http://pycage.blogspot.com/ >
There's always rainlendar....
