FESCo Proposal for blocking older version of autoconf & automake
seth vidal
skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Mon May 5 17:39:18 UTC 2008
On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 12:29 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > How comes you expect each and every tool in Fedora but the autotools to
> > be "current".
>
> That's it!
>
> OK, by Fedora 10 we need to start removing all sorts of not 'current'
> things that aren't up to modern standards.
>
> First, toolkits!
>
> We need to remove gtk1, qt3, and for pete's sake, Xaw and Xaw3d. All
> are obsolete, and users and developers are best served by upgrading
> to more recent toolkits such as Qt4 and GTK2.
>
> The following 258 packages need ported by Fedora 10, or they will
> be removed:
+1
> Next step, languages. (That can follow in a different mail.)
> After all, who needs old stuff like tcl, fortran, or Ada when we have
> python, ruby, and C?
+1
Sadly, you're joking.
But I would love to get rid of the libraries you mentioned before.
-sv
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