On Monday 2021-08-23 23:22, Martin Wilck wrote:
This reminds me of the loss of DisplayCal to Python 3. There, too, upstream is at fault [...] application developers who have no time for porting their apps
Sounds just like all the DOS games that developers never ported to Linux, leaving users out in the cold...
Does it? To me, it's a difference whether an application was never available, or whether it was dropped.
Certain old games were written for a specific environment, e.g. DOS. Certain old tools - displaycal here - was also written for a specific environment, that being python2 and x11. Neither DOS nor Python2 are being maintained by upstream - and X11 is kind of leaving the picture too, as time progresses. The builds of these environments are available "as is" only, and the evolution of contemporary platforms may lead to incompatiblies that require more and more emulation.