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On Sun, 4 Oct 2015, Britton Kerin (britton DOT kerin AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user@=
delorie.com] wrote:

>Having spent some time in hid/ lately I strongly dislike the idea of more =
of
>that sort of thing.=C2=A0 It adds zero new functionality, just allows peop=
le to
>doggedly cling to their favorite platform.=C2=A0 The implementations behin=
d the
>hid diverge and make every actual feature you might wand to fix or add
>harder.=C2=A0 Gtk works.=C2=A0 Gtk2 works. =C2=A0"It might break or go awa=
y 5 years from
>now" is not much of an argument for doing the big work required to support
>other things.

Fortunately it will not affect you. It will happen in pcb-rnd and has=20
about zero chance to get back to mainline. In return I'll have a faster,=20
smaller, more maintainable HID avaialble.

Anyway gtk2 "works" - in the sense that in 5 years or so it will not be an=
=20
option. Distros won't ship it, and no user will try to compile it from=20
source. The options are: either spend a lot of time to write a hid for the=
=20
new version of gtk or spend the same amount of time on writing a=20
hid for something else. For pcb-rnd, I simply went for the second option.=
=20
I started it now even if technically gtk2 still works today. Why not gtk3=
=20
or qt? If you've read the long list I've posted, you've seen the reasons.

Regards,

Igor2

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