From: James Le Cuirot <chewi@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: Fwd: [gentoo-dev] Please actively drop support for Qt5 wherever possible
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2025 11:22:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8f057933c4fe085dbe3d2f9be968fc1333c8cfb4.camel@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <tagoud5sc2b7dlnyjuh6jh5p7rwcldqrh7nroxkh3bof5clr5d@2x7bwd25t5ud>
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On Thu, 2025-01-02 at 03:13 -0800, Zoltan Puskas wrote:
> >
> > So, removing Qt5 will break computers of many users, including my computer.
> > In the course of many years of existence of Qt5 a large number of useful
> > programs have been created; not all of them have been ported to Qt6. Are we
> > going to throw away all this wealth?
> >
>
> I have to agree with Andrey here, the list contains quite a few items that are
> likely used by a lot of users and killing all these apps is going to be painful.
There may be some confusion here. The list includes packages like
www-client/vivaldi, which already support both versions. It is also sometimes
possible to simply rebuild against Qt6 with no changes but not always.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-01-02 11:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-01-01 21:50 Fwd: [gentoo-dev] Please actively drop support for Qt5 wherever possible Andreas Sturmlechner
2025-01-02 6:36 ` Andrey Grozin
2025-01-02 11:13 ` Zoltan Puskas
2025-01-02 11:22 ` James Le Cuirot [this message]
2025-01-02 11:29 ` Alexey Sokolov
2025-01-02 18:57 ` Andreas Sturmlechner
2025-01-02 18:57 ` Andreas Sturmlechner
2025-01-02 19:03 ` Philip Webb
2025-01-02 19:05 ` Andreas Sturmlechner
2025-01-02 11:29 ` Daniel Buschke
2025-01-02 12:22 ` Viorel Munteanu
2025-01-02 18:47 ` Andreas Sturmlechner
2025-01-02 19:56 ` Sam James
2025-01-03 2:38 ` Ionen Wolkens
2025-01-03 13:41 ` Andreas Sturmlechner
2025-01-02 11:19 ` Lucio Sauer
2025-01-02 19:39 ` Eli Schwartz
2025-01-02 19:51 ` Sam James
2025-01-02 11:37 ` Ulrich Müller
2025-01-02 18:58 ` Andreas Sturmlechner
2025-01-28 20:53 ` Andreas Sturmlechner
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