[gentoo-dev-announce] Qt3 deprecation

[Ben de Groot]

As Petteri suggested correctly, this needs to be on the g-dev-announce
list too.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Qt3 deprecation
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 22:25:24 +0200
From: Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o>
Reply-To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Organization: Gentoo Linux
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o

Dear fellow devs,

We would like to draw your attention to the fact that the Gentoo Qt team
now officially discourages further usage of Qt3. Version 3 is no longer
being developed or supported upstream. All users are strongly encouraged
to use Qt version 4 where applicable.

This means that we request that no new Qt3-based packages will be
introduced to the portage tree. Also, where there is a choice, Qt4
should be preferred over Qt3 by default.

We will still do some minimal maintenance and support on the existing
Qt3 libs and applications for about another 6 months. This will give
application maintainers the time to upgrade or look for alternatives.
After this period we will move the Qt3 libs and apps along with KDE3
into an overlay where users of those legacy packages can maintain them.

If you have a package for which both Qt3 and Qt4 versions exist, please
have the Qt4-based version marked stable (if it isn't already) within
the next few months and remove the legacy Qt3-based version, if possible.

Thanks,

Ben de Groot
Gentoo Qt team lead