On Wed, Mar 25, 2026 at 11:11:41AM -0400, Frédéric Brière wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2026 at 10:29:16AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > As far as I can tell, there is no active upstream anymore, and I am not
> > aware of ongoing efforts to port xzgv to GTK3 or GTK4.
>
> https://github.com/fbriere/xzgv/tree/gtk-3
>
> Very little testing and code review has been done yet; my goal in making
> this pre-pre-pre-alpha version public right now is to show that there's
> still hope for this little package, and prevent any premature action
> such as a massive bug-closing if it can be avoided.
Very cool! At the risk of scaring you off, would you at all be
interested in becoming the new upstream for xzgv? Upstream is at:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/xzgv/
And as you can see, it hasn't been updated in 3 years, and I got added
as one of the SourceForge project owners so I could get some of the
bug fixes that got introduced via Debian upstream. So if we want to
keep it around, in order to be sustainable, we probably do need to
find a new official upstream.
I'm willing to help, but (a) I have very little time, and (b) I have
almost no experience with GtK2 or GtK3 programming. (What I have was
trying to fix obvious xzgv bugs. :-)
> Also be warned that proper testing might take a while; although I use
> xzgv every day, that version includes several patches that would require
> porting/merging before I would consider switching over. (I'm hesitating
> between submitting these well-tested patches upstream *before*
> finalizing the port, or porting first and submitting these now-rebased
> no-longer-well-tested patches afterward. We'll see.)
We can reach out to Reuben Thomas and see he might be interested in
waking up and looking at your port, but I suspect it's not all that
likely.
- Ted
