[Pkg-sugar-devel] Bug#813258: Bug#813258: sugar-record-activity: Should sugar-record-activity be removed?

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Tony Anderson (2016-01-31 12:27:41)
> However, I wonder what is a 'modern' gstreamer.

GStreamer 1.0


> Why would anyone remove a useful capability because it isn't up to 
> their parochial definition of 'modern'?

"Someone" being the developers of GStreamer might consider their own 
creation to no longer be interesting to maintain.  If noone else steps 
up to take over maintainer of their old code, then that code over time 
becomes *DANGEROUS* to run - which arguably is the case now for 
GStreamer 0.10.

Are you volunteering to maintain GStreamer 0.10, or are you aware of 
anyone who is?


> Why should the very limited resources available to Sugar be forced to 
> divert their efforts to this 'modernization'?

Core Sugar (at some point called "Sucrose") currently "forces" the use 
of GStreamer 1.0, so if you want Sugar to stay with GStreamer 0.10 then 
you will need to not only find someone to take over maintenance of 
GStreamer 0.10, but also convince Sugar developers to revert to GTK+ 2.x 
and GStreamer 0.10 - or fork Sugar (similar to how Mate forked an old 
GTK+ 2.x version of GNOME).


> Would you remove all of the Python code in Sugar because it isn't 
> written in modern Python 3? Should we remove Scratch because it isn't 
> Scratch 2? Should we stop using Moodle because it isn't Moodle 2?

Debian is a _library_ of sourcecode.  Please target those questions at 
the various _upstreams_ of the sourcecode, as those are the ones in 
power of deciding which toolkits, widget sets etc. to use.


 - Jonas

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