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Half of the the Polish +</I>><i> >>> community is demanding it, and because of lack of qt3-devel people +</I>><i> 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 qt3 is obsolete +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> > +</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> +</I>><i> I am thoroughly unimpressed with this trinity stuff. Open Source +</I>><i> software gives people freedoms and that's good, but it doesn't stop them +</I>><i> making bad decisions. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Times move on. Why take a legacy bit of software and keep on developing +</I>><i> it? If they *really* cared so much for the KDE3 interface they would +</I>><i> port it to qt4 or even qt5, not limp on with outdated base layers. +</I>><i> +</I> +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.... + +><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Col +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> -- +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Colin Guthrie +</I>><i> colin(at)mageia.org +</I>><i> <A HREF="http://colin.guthr.ie/">http://colin.guthr.ie/</A> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Day Job: +</I>><i> Tribalogic Limited <A HREF="http://www.tribalogic.net/">http://www.tribalogic.net/</A> +</I>><i> Open Source: +</I>><i> Mageia Contributor <A HREF="http://www.mageia.org/">http://www.mageia.org/</A> +</I>><i> PulseAudio Hacker <A HREF="http://www.pulseaudio.org/">http://www.pulseaudio.org/</A> +</I>><i> Trac Hacker <A HREF="http://trac.edgewall.org/">http://trac.edgewall.org/</A> +</I>><i> +</I>-------------- next part -------------- +An HTML attachment was scrubbed... +URL: </pipermail/mageia-dev/attachments/20120307/030f9e1f/attachment.html> +</PRE> + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="012563.html">[Mageia-dev] qt3-devel +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="012533.html">[Mageia-dev] Version freeze: 2012/03/07 +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#12797">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#12797">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#12797">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#12797">[ 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> |