On 27 October 2014 03:11, Bálint Réczey <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > 2014-10-25 3:14 GMT+02:00 Kai Willadsen <[email protected]>: >> Hi all, >> >> Future development of Meld is all going in to the 3.x series, and is >> (mostly) coming along very nicely. This is all good and won't change. >> However, there's a large user base still on 1.8.x, etc. who can't >> upgrade to the current 3.x series because they're on RHEL 6 or >> crazy-stable Debian or similar. > For the record next stable Debian release (Jessie) will ship 3.12.x > and no one asked for providing meld 1.8.x/3.x in wheezy-backports yet. > ;-) > >> >> I'm struggling to even find the time to squish current 3.x Meld into >> the shape I think it should be, so have no spare cycles to contemplate >> proper maintenance of 1.8.x, let alone the existence of a 1.9 series. >> If, however, there is someone out there interested in maintaining a >> GTK+ 2 branch of Meld then please speak up! > I was thinking about providing a meld-gtk2 package in Debian, but as > long as meld 1.8.6-1 [1] works fine on latest testing/stable I don't > feel the need for it.
Cool, thanks for that. That's very useful feedback. While I haven't tested, Meld 3.x should (for now at least) be fine on RHEL 7 as well, so maybe that will suffice. cheers, Kai _______________________________________________ meld-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/meld-list
