[Mageia-dev] qt3-devel needed for Trinitydesktop (KDE 3.5 successor)

Thu Mar 24 20:55:47 CET 2011

On 24 March 2011 21:36, Maarten Vanraes <maarten.vanraes at gmail.com> wrote:
+> Op donderdag 24 maart 2011 14:10:39 schreef Romain d'Alverny:
+>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 09:13, Tux99 <tux99-mga at uridium.org> wrote:
+>> > Like I said before, KDE3.5 coexisted very well with KDE4 since 2009.1 on
+>> > Mandriva and Trinity is even more so being developed with coexistence in
+>> > mind, so there shouldn't be any unsolvable issues.
+>>
+>> Maybe it did coexist well at a significant cost on the packaging side?
+>> (time, packaging compromises) and maybe the situation isn't exactly
+>> the same as then?
+>>
+>> > This is exactly what I would call a reasonable factual argumentation.
+>>
+>> But an argument is not going to make anyone progress one way or the
+>> other here obviously. If there are fears, then provide facts to
+>> counter them (no argument, but facts).
+>>
+>> You propose to add TDE in the repository. After this discussion, the
+>> next step is you to first package TDE, build and test and
+>> see/demonstrate how it goes, regarding at least these 5 points
+>> (summarized from above) before an integration is considered:
+>>  1. no conflict on files
+>>  2. install in %_prefix (not in /opt)
+>>  3. no duplicate software name (do not confuse user to decide between
+>> tde-k3b and k3b for instance - or find a realistic workaround use
+>> case).
+>>  4. at this point, no apps outside of the TDE project should require TDE
+>>  5. committed maintainers
+>>
+>> Romain
+>
+> also promising to maintain qt3 as long as it's needed and here, the same
+> thing, not conflicting with qt4 in any way
+>
+
+How could a packager propose to maintain qt3 when it's been dead
+upstream for years? so no upstream support/patches/whatever...
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+