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

Thu Mar 24 22:04:56 CET 2011

Op donderdag 24 maart 2011 20:55:47 schreef Ahmad Samir:
+> 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...
+
+yes, it would be a huge amount of work; and that's exactly the reason i 
+proposed to OP to just wait until it's qt4.
+