Re: memo

On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 11:36:51 +0100
Liam Proven <[email protected]> wrote:

>On 19 March 2018 at 22:01, Will Godfrey <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Nobody? :(  
>
>No Eye Deer here, I'm afraid.
>
>On my to-do list here is to attempt to package ROX Desktop for
>openSUSE and get a ROX-only version up and running. Aside from that,
>though, I've barely looked at ROX in years, I'm afraid.
>
>I fear it may be nearing the end of the line. AIUI ROX is written in
>Python, I'm guessing Python 2 -- and Python 2 has less than 2 years to
>live now.
>
>https://pythonclock.org/
>
>After that, its only hope might be Tauthon, and that does not seem to
>be achieving a lot of traction... :-( Most people I've spoken to have
>not even heard of it.
>
>https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon
>

Well moving to Python 3 should be a major impediment. I've done that myself
with some stuff. It's tedious rather than difficult.

And no, I'm not offering. I'm already up to my eyeballs in software - and I'm
supposed to be retired :(

-- 
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
Say you have a poem and I have a tune.
Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.

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