Re: gnu-smalltalk was dropped from debian

2023-10-29 Thread Holger Freyther
Hi bill! > On 29. Oct 2023, at 05:20, bill-auger wrote: > ... > i think the highest priority would be to repair or drop anything that is > broken > in 3.2.91 as it is now (eg: the gst-browser, the blox browser, etc), even if > that means yanking GTK entirely; and make a release of what

Re: gnu-smalltalk was dropped from debian

2023-10-28 Thread bill-auger
implementing support for GTK4 is clearly something that should be on the road-map; but i agree that GTK support should not be a deciding factor for the project's future - GTK is non-essential - it is the equivalent of the optional GTK bindings for other languages (python, ruby, etc) - no one would

Re: gnu-smalltalk was dropped from debian

2023-10-28 Thread s...@telenet.be
GNU smalltalk could be useful in a purely command-line oriented way, for example with the EMACS (Emacs editor) integration which was as far as I understand it, the concept back in 1990 or so, back in the days of Steve Byrne. Also the wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Smalltalk

Re: gnu-smalltalk was dropped from debian

2023-10-28 Thread Holger Freyther
Thanks for the heads up. Do we have any volunteers to re-activate the development of GNU Smalltalk, move towards GTK4? > On 27. Sep 2023, at 13:21, bill-auger wrote: > > reasons given for removal: > * no debian maintainer > * depends on GTK2 > * inactive upstream > > For details on the

gnu-smalltalk was dropped from debian

2023-09-26 Thread bill-auger
reasons given for removal: * no debian maintainer * depends on GTK2 * inactive upstream For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1049451 On Sun, 14 Nov 2021 14:18:51 +0800 Holger wrote: > Indeed. We should promote 3.2.91 to 3.3.0 and cope with VisualGST being > slightly