Helge Hafting wrote: > Murdered is a bit too strong here, I think.
No, it describes quite accurately what happened with qt3: Some people decided all of a sudden that it had to go from 'supported, must work' status to 'dead, removed from the repo'. > Several core developers decided they did not want > to actively _support_ these frontends anymore. Then > they starved to death from lack of interest. This is again rewriting history. It was the case for gtk, but not for qt3. > Some people > liking qt3 is not enough - someone has to put in the work too. And that did happen. > If anyone had stepped up and said "I will maintain qt3/gtk, > implement every new dialog etc. in a timely manner" > then these frontends would have lived. But no one did, > so they died. Wrong (for qt3), exactly this offer did exist. Look at trac, I don't think you will find a bigger delay than one or two days between a qt4 change and the corresponding qt3 part. gtk is a different thing, in that case there was simply not enough interest. Georg
