[arch-general] Gnome 3 + KDE 4 are both large disappointments.

[Yaro Kasear]

On Sunday, April 10, 2011 13:13:42 Jelle van der Waa wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-04-10 at 19:40 +0300, Alper Kanat wrote:
> > s/failback/fallback/g
> > 
> > sorry for the typo..
> > 
> > ---
> > Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
> > 
> > On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 19:39, Alper Kanat <tunix at raptiye.org> wrote:
> > > Hello Fellow Archers,
> > > 
> > > Most people say that Arch is cutting edge and saving GNOME2 as 
gnome2
> > > is not the the Arch way. I know that packaging and maintaining 
GNOME2
> > > is a hard task that no devs would want to take care of and that we'll
> > > most likely be seeing unofficial repositories but what about python?
> > > Despite the upstream python is 3.x, we still have python2 for
> > > failback? So is that the Arch way?
> 
> quote from python.org
>         The current production versions are Python 2.7.1 and Python 3.2.
> 
>         Start with one of these versions for learning Python or if you
>         want the most stability; they're both considered stable
>         production releases.now.
> 
> While with GNOME it's the case that GNOME2 is dead , SO LONG LIVE
> GNOME3!!
> 
> *jelly drinks beer with his gnome friends

That was the point I was trying to make. GNOME 2 is being dropped not just 
because GNOME 3 is here, but because upstream is dropping it and 
nobody wants to go through the trouble to try to maintain something entirely 
unsupported upstream.

And, for the millionth time, when a shared library GNOME 2 uses gets a 
major version bump, there goes any semblance of compatibility it would 
have.