[arch-dev-public] [RFC] New package: vte3-2.90

[Maxime Gauduin]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 6:39 PM, <jan at jgc.homeip.net> wrote:

> On 2014-09-29 08:35, Jan Alexander Steffens wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 5:45 AM, Anatol Pomozov
>> <anatol.pomozov at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> This is the best thing we can do now. I briefly looked at vte 0.38 and
>>> found that it contains *a lot* of API changes. It requires non-trivial
>>> patches to port sakura and other applications. Let's leave the task of
>>> API porting to the apps developers.
>>>
>>
>> Well, at least in the apps I ported the API changes weren't that
>> difficult to adapt to. But, they weren't dedicated terminal
>> applications. IIRC features were removed where the best we could do
>> would be stubbing them out.
>>
>> On another note, I wouldn't be opposed to using this opportunity to
>> flip our package names around, so we'll have vte2, vte2.90 and vte.
>> Or, if we want to match the library names, vte, vte2_90 and vte-2.91.
>> Or maybe some other combination. In any case, vte3 isn't really the
>> right name.
>>
>
> Note that the whole reason for vte-common (the pty helper binary) is not
> an issue anymore with latest vte3 anymore. Upstream has deprecated it and
> disabled the build by default, I enabled it for now, but when we disable it
> again, the binary can move to the vte2 package.
>
> I'm not very happy with having 2 outdated copies of vte in our repos
> though, it's another old library that will not receive any maintenance at
> all. I only want to package the older version in our repos if someone can
> assure me that it will stay active for only 6 months, after that it should
> disappear from repos and all applications that haven't been ported should
> die together with it.
>


The terminal plugin for Cairo Dock is now fully ported with the help of
Anatol. I had a look at pantheon-terminal as well, but it's way out of my
league. Changes are not straightforward for someone who does not speak Vala
or C: some functions are deprecated and/or no longer available, and it's
not just VTE :( I opened a bug report on Launchpad and am waiting for some
feedback, but keeping the old one around for a little while would be nice.