[chirp_users] Grumpy old man.

[Roger Hill]

Darn autocorrect. I meant Qt.
Roger
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On 8 May 2020, 13:02, at 13:02, Roger Hill <rhill at hillconsult.com> wrote:
>Better still, to At.
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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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