[chirp_users] Grumpy old man.

[Richard Shaw]

On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 11:28 AM Michael Downey N2UN <n2un at arrl.net> wrote:

> Hi Roger,
>
> On Fri, May 8, 2020, at 08:59, Roger Hill wrote:
> > What I don't understand with the current move to produce a 'flatpack'
> > version of chirp, is why the effort is not being expended to migrate
> > chirp to version 3 of Python. Python version 2 is end of life. Period.
>
> I'd agree. Python 2 won't be supported any more which could prove
> problematic in many ways. IMHO, shipping a flatpak so Python 2 can still be
> provided should be seen more as "life support" and not a cure, which should
> still be a high priority for those that are able to do so. (We should
> remember that Python 3 was first released in December 2008.) :-)
>

And Gtk2 (and by extension pygtk2) are pretty ancient, so it would be good
to transition to Gtk3 at the same time.


The skills to create a flatpak are likely different than those needed to
> migrate to Python 3, so the efforts need not be mutually exclusive. There
> is an argument one could make for sticking with the flatpak approach even
> when Python is upgraded.
>

Very true.

Thanks,
Richard
KF5OIM
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