>>>>> "Abdelrazak" == Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Abdelrazak> Obviously, the only logical decision to take now is to Abdelrazak> declare qt3 deprecated then. >> Not sure. Abdelrazak> And you will never be. If it looks like qt3 can continue to serve its purpose, it should continue. What I am not sure of, is whether we'll manage to do that. Abdelrazak> I am not talking about simple bug or compilation fixing. I Abdelrazak> am talking about API cleanup. There's much thing to do in Abdelrazak> this area, like it or not. I was mislead by "I won't touch one line of it from now on", obviously. >> 1. who is going to do that? I still got no offer. Abdelrazak> You mean autotools, scons or cmake support for static Abdelrazak> linking? No, do the actual packaging for actual binaries, and coordinate all the packaging action. Abdelrazak> Why presuming that something is not possible just because Abdelrazak> you have no clear offer? People need directions as to how Abdelrazak> they could contribute. I did post a list. >> 2. when proposed more liberty about qt4, your first reaction is to >> demand 4.2 only (which will probably become 4.3 only by the time >> 1/5 is released) Abdelrazak> So what? I don't see how this contradicts what I am saying Abdelrazak> above. When statically linked, the user don't care if it Abdelrazak> is 4.1, 4.2 or 4.3. The latest, the better. This is not how linux distributions work. >> 3. As Edwin said "there is no free lunch". Abdelrazak> Too much thinking kills the thinking (sic). You are Abdelrazak> dismissing any decision just because you are afraid of Abdelrazak> potential problems that might appear in the future. I say Abdelrazak> let's take some clear decisions right now to freed Abdelrazak> ourselves from these endless discussions. Hey! When the time will come to actually do the work, you will be happily working on the qt5 frontend (because qt4 is soo old), and the 1.5 stable release manager will have to handle the dirty work. Nice. I am not dismissing any decision, I am proposing things that you do not want to accept because you do not want to have any constraint. Maybe that if I said "let's stick to C++" you would say that you want to go to Qt's new java toolkit... JMarc
