Re: The Future?

[Igor Korot <ikorot01 gmail com>]

Hi,

On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 11:08 AM Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com> wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Mar 2019 at 15:53, Igor Korot <ikorot01 gmail com> wrote:
> > Hi, Emmanuel et al,
> >
> > On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 4:38 AM Emmanuele Bassi via gtk-list
> > <gtk-list gnome org> wrote:
> > > Meta: having this discussion on gtk-list is probably the best example as to why we need to move to 
> > > Discourse. Nobody involved with the development of GTK even reads this list, except me, so you're never 
> > > going to get more than my opinion about it.
> >
> > What is "Discourse"?
>
>
> Announcement of the Discourse instance, sent to this list: 
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-list/2019-March/msg00000.html
>
> Discourse: https://discourse.gnome.org

Thank you for the link. I will look at them.

> > How about porting recent GTK version to OpenVMS?
>
>
> If you want to add a new platform to GTK, you will need to:

Here is the problem - it is not a new port.
The last version of GTK+ on OpenVMS is GTK+1.x.

There was an effort to upgrade GTK+ for OpenVMS, but unfortunately it failed.

Now out of curiosity - do you have access to OpenVMS?

Thank you.

>  - ensure that GTK master and gtk-3-24 build on it
>  - open merge requests for every needed fix, if any
>  - add a GitLab CI runner, so that we can test every commit and merge request on that platform, and ensure 
> we don't regress
>
> If you want to support OpenVMS, you'll have to work on it, or pay somebody to work on it.
>
> Ciao,
>  Emmanuele.
>
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