[chirp_users] Grumpy old man.

[Roger Hill]

Better still, to At.
Roger
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On 8 May 2020, 12:57, at 12:57, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:
>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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