On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 01:52:30PM +0200, Georg Baum wrote: > 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.
It's not about qt4->qt3 porting, it's about core work influencing frontends and keeping them compilabe. Andre'
