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On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Ben de Groot<yngwin@g.o> wrote: |
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> Dear fellow devs, |
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> We would like to draw your attention to the fact that the Gentoo Qt team |
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> now officially discourages further usage of Qt3. Version 3 is no longer |
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> being developed or supported upstream. All users are strongly encouraged |
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> to use Qt version 4 where applicable. |
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> This means that we request that no new Qt3-based packages will be |
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> introduced to the portage tree. Also, where there is a choice, Qt4 |
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> should be preferred over Qt3 by default. |
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> We will still do some minimal maintenance and support on the existing |
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> Qt3 libs and applications for about another 6 months. This will give |
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> application maintainers the time to upgrade or look for alternatives. |
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> After this period we will move the Qt3 libs and apps along with KDE3 |
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> into an overlay where users of those legacy packages can maintain them. |
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> If you have a package for which both Qt3 and Qt4 versions exist, please |
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> have the Qt4-based version marked stable (if it isn't already) within |
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> the next few months and remove the legacy Qt3-based version, if possible. |
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> Thanks, |
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> Ben de Groot |
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> Gentoo Qt team lead |
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MythTV still uses Qt3 and there is NO way that the Qt4 based MythTV |
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could even remotely be considered stable. It is still undergoing |
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constantly changing and there are many codepaths that are incomplete. |
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Doug Goldstein |
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