On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Colin Guthrie <mag...@colin.guthr.ie>wrote:
> '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 qt3 is obsolete 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. > Funny you say that. I believe they tried with a pkg called qtinterface. Don't quote me, but the gist of it was that qt4 has performance issues in many areas. It's all POV... I wouldn't call kde4 the panacea of DEs either... so in a sense I agree with you in that it doesn't stop a group of ppl from making a long set of bad decisions.... > > > 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/ >