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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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