Hallo Fred van Stappen, Du schriebst am Tue, 31 Aug 2021 12:12:38 +0000:
> >> For example QT4 is not distributed in all new Linux distros, so a ... > > But QT5 will be, for some time, and after it, QT6 might take over, ... > Yes but what I wanted to note is that the limitation are bigger with > Qt than for msegui/fpgui. I have a old free application done with For now, yes. No longer maintained X11 certainly is more "stable" than constantly refreshed Qt or GTK, but exactly by that means, msegui will not be able to even use anything new provided by its foundation. ... > Sadly, people will not be able to use it with new Linux distribution. > For example with Ubuntu 21.10, doing > <https://sites.google.com/site/fiensprototyping/home> > $> sudo apt-get install libqt4pas-dev > Will give a error "Package does not exist', the same for libwebkit4qt. Because it wasn't developed further and thus cannot make use of the _current_ version of Qt - if the older Qt4 was rebuilt so it can work on the system, your application _will_ continue to work. > If the application was gone with msegui or fpgui, it would still work. For now, and as long as (an appropriate version of) X11 is still available. Thus, the information of your last message should be a good one, even though I personally am not so fond of Wayland, mainly because of its origin and originators. They're (said to be) the same people that created the never-mature systemd and pressed it "in the market". I'm afraid that it will be the same with Wayland, that's still far from mature, if it ever will become so. But, as said before, that's my personal point of view. Du schriebst am Mon, 30 Aug 2021 23:15:48 +0000: > Well, the best would be to have the Wayland interface for msegui. > Andrew Haines has done the binding for Wayland. > https://github.com/andrewd207/fpc-wayland So that's fine, very fine for msegui, as it should secure it's future for the time when X11 might be discontinued and done away by some or even most Linux distributions. -- (Weitergabe von Adressdaten, Telefonnummern u.ä. ohne Zustimmung nicht gestattet, ebenso Zusendung von Werbung oder ähnlichem) ----------------------------------------------------------- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, S. Schicktanz ----------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ mseide-msegui-talk mailing list mseide-msegui-talk@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mseide-msegui-talk
