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

Thu Mar 24 22:09:50 CET 2011

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Maarten Vanraes
+<maarten.vanraes at gmail.com> wrote:
+> 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.
+>
+
+this will just remove the qt3 issue bug all the other issues will
+still be valid.
+