Re: Meld 1.x

[Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com>]

On 27 October 2014 03:11, Bálint Réczey <balint balintreczey hu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2014-10-25 3:14 GMT+02:00 Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com>:
> > 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