Op donderdag 24 maart 2011 20:55:47 schreef Ahmad Samir: > On 24 March 2011 21:36, Maarten Vanraes <maarten.vanr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Op donderdag 24 maart 2011 14:10:39 schreef Romain d'Alverny: > >> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 09:13, Tux99 <tux99-...@uridium.org> wrote: > >> > Like I said before, KDE3.5 coexisted very well with KDE4 since 2009.1 > >> > on Mandriva and Trinity is even more so being developed with > >> > coexistence in mind, so there shouldn't be any unsolvable issues. > >> > >> Maybe it did coexist well at a significant cost on the packaging side? > >> (time, packaging compromises) and maybe the situation isn't exactly > >> the same as then? > >> > >> > This is exactly what I would call a reasonable factual argumentation. > >> > >> But an argument is not going to make anyone progress one way or the > >> other here obviously. If there are fears, then provide facts to > >> counter them (no argument, but facts). > >> > >> You propose to add TDE in the repository. After this discussion, the > >> next step is you to first package TDE, build and test and > >> see/demonstrate how it goes, regarding at least these 5 points > >> (summarized from above) before an integration is considered: > >> 1. no conflict on files > >> 2. install in %_prefix (not in /opt) > >> 3. no duplicate software name (do not confuse user to decide between > >> tde-k3b and k3b for instance - or find a realistic workaround use > >> case). > >> 4. at this point, no apps outside of the TDE project should require TDE > >> 5. committed maintainers > >> > >> Romain > > > > also promising to maintain qt3 as long as it's needed and here, the same > > thing, not conflicting with qt4 in any way > > How could a packager propose to maintain qt3 when it's been dead > upstream for years? so no upstream support/patches/whatever...
yes, it would be a huge amount of work; and that's exactly the reason i proposed to OP to just wait until it's qt4.