'Twas brillig, and Kamil Rytarowski at 02/03/12 19:43 did gyre and gimble: > On 02.03.2012 19:55, Thomas Backlund wrote: >> 02.03.2012 20:49, Kamil Rytarowski skrev: >>> Hello! >>> >>> Is possible to ship qt3-devel with Mageia? Half of the the Polish >>> community is demanding it, and because of lack of qt3-devel people can't >>> switch from other Well Known Distros to Mageia. >>> >> NO. >> >> As stated a million times before... >> >> qt3 is obsolete >> >> The only reason we have some qt3 runtime support is because of LSB > Sad.. >> >> Any stuff needed should be ported to qt4. > Actually this is not true. One of our Mageia users (who introduced > Mageia on a dozen of machines) can't switch the next dozen because of > lacking Rivendell Radio Broadcasting software ( > http://www.rivendellaudio.org/index.shtml ), the other can't use his > favourite qt3 apps, and a few others (including RH employee) are forced > to use Fedora or KDE4. > > If the "obsolete" part is the only reason, then it's not too strong.. > the package is maintained and there is *upstream*. > > As of the 3.5.13 release the Trinity project has taken over maintenance > of Qt3. > > This means we are the new "upstream" location for up-to-date Qt3 > source code. > Since there have been no updates or stable releases from > Nokia/Trolltech in many years and there are literally hundreds patches > floating around, there was a significant need for a central location. > By maintaining Qt3 it will allow us to continue to improve Qt3 > outside the scope of Trinity. It will also provide a central location > for Linux distributions to build packages from, and contributers to > submit code to. > For obvious reasons any Qt3 version released by this project is > licensed under the GPL only; holders of Trolltech Qt licenses may not > use these versions in their proprietary projects. > > http://www.trinitydesktop.org/wiki/bin/view/Documentation/Releases_3_5_13#Qt3 > > > Trinity is currently packaged for Mandriva, OpenSUSE and available for > the main distros.
I am thoroughly unimpressed with this trinity stuff. Open Source software gives people freedoms and that's good, but it doesn't stop them making bad decisions. Times move on. Why take a legacy bit of software and keep on developing it? If they *really* cared so much for the KDE3 interface they would port it to qt4 or even qt5, not limp on with outdated base layers. Col -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/