Anyone still using smart ?

[keith at karsites.net]

Hi Jani.

I see that smart 1.4-2 is included with linux mint 18, but I have not 
installed smart yet.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/08/mint-18-review-just-works-linux-doesnt-get-any-better-than-this/

Smart PM did get me out of a lot of dependency issues when running on 
another Linux distribution.

But I have not had to use Smart PM yet running mint.

Kind Regards,

Keith

On 2016-10-29 20:18, Jani Partanen wrote:
> Well I have to say that I would love to use smart still because it
> does have something what other PM's don't have. Very awesome GUI. With
> smart and it's GUI it was very easy for me to handle lot of 3rd party
> repos, it was so easy to manage priorities with that GUI.
> 
> 
> On 11.8.2016 17:35, Anders F Björklund wrote:
>> Hi!
>> 
>> Is there anyone or any distribution still using smart for their 
>> package management ?
>> I haven't really myself, since 2011 (almost 5 years!) with the 
>> smart-1.4.1 release.
>> 
>> http://labix.org/smart
>> https://launchpad.net/smart
>> 
>> We did do the smart-1.5 release on github, with the patches from the 
>> Yocto project.
>> But I don't have access to the labix.org page, so it is only available 
>> on GitHub.
>> 
>> http://smartpm.github.io/smart
>> https://github.com/smartpm/smart
>> 
>> 
>> With the dnf and the apt, is there still need for smart ? Not sure 
>> that I see it...
>> 
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ReplaceYumWithDNF
>> https://mvogt.wordpress.com/2014/04/04/apt-1-0/ (apt 1.0)
>> 
>> I have mostly received requests to redo the whole thing in Py3 or Qt4, 
>> to no effect.
>> (i.e. it was ported from python to python3, or from gtk to qt4. but 
>> still the same)
>> 
>> Should we keep the project alive ? Does anyone want to take over the 
>> maintenance ?
>> 
>> --anders
>>