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Half of the the Polish +</I>>>><i> community is demanding it, and because of lack of qt3-devel people can't +</I>>>><i> switch from other Well Known Distros to Mageia. +</I>>>><i> +</I>>><i> NO. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> As stated a million times before... +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> qt3 is obsolete +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> The only reason we have some qt3 runtime support is because of LSB +</I>><i> Sad.. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> Any stuff needed should be ported to qt4. +</I>><i> Actually this is not true. One of our Mageia users (who introduced +</I>><i> Mageia on a dozen of machines) can't switch the next dozen because of +</I>><i> lacking Rivendell Radio Broadcasting software ( +</I>><i> <A HREF="http://www.rivendellaudio.org/index.shtml">http://www.rivendellaudio.org/index.shtml</A> ), the other can't use his +</I>><i> favourite qt3 apps, and a few others (including RH employee) are forced +</I>><i> to use Fedora or KDE4. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> If the "obsolete" part is the only reason, then it's not too strong.. +</I>><i> the package is maintained and there is *upstream*. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> As of the 3.5.13 release the Trinity project has taken over maintenance +</I>><i> of Qt3. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> This means we are the new "upstream" location for up-to-date Qt3 +</I>><i> source code. +</I>><i> Since there have been no updates or stable releases from +</I>><i> Nokia/Trolltech in many years and there are literally hundreds patches +</I>><i> floating around, there was a significant need for a central location. +</I>><i> By maintaining Qt3 it will allow us to continue to improve Qt3 +</I>><i> outside the scope of Trinity. It will also provide a central location +</I>><i> for Linux distributions to build packages from, and contributers to +</I>><i> submit code to. +</I>><i> For obvious reasons any Qt3 version released by this project is +</I>><i> licensed under the GPL only; holders of Trolltech Qt licenses may not +</I>><i> use these versions in their proprietary projects. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> <A HREF="http://www.trinitydesktop.org/wiki/bin/view/Documentation/Releases_3_5_13#Qt3">http://www.trinitydesktop.org/wiki/bin/view/Documentation/Releases_3_5_13#Qt3</A> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Trinity is currently packaged for Mandriva, OpenSUSE and available for +</I>><i> the main distros. +</I> +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 +<A HREF="http://colin.guthr.ie/">http://colin.guthr.ie/</A> + +Day Job: + Tribalogic Limited <A HREF="http://www.tribalogic.net/">http://www.tribalogic.net/</A> +Open Source: + Mageia Contributor <A HREF="http://www.mageia.org/">http://www.mageia.org/</A> + PulseAudio Hacker <A HREF="http://www.pulseaudio.org/">http://www.pulseaudio.org/</A> + Trac Hacker <A HREF="http://trac.edgewall.org/">http://trac.edgewall.org/</A> +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="012529.html">[Mageia-dev] qt3-devel +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="012797.html">[Mageia-dev] qt3-devel +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#12563">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#12563">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#12563">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#12563">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |