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

Fri Mar 25 17:05:54 CET 2011

2011/3/25 xi <ctrl.alt.sup at free.fr>:
+> Hoyt Duff wrote:
+>>
+>> I agree, there is no 'compelling reason' not to offer it. The people
+>> doing the work just don't want to because enabling it means they have
+>> to support it. _Since Mageia doesn't need it for anything_, it makes no
+>> sense to enable it; it consumes scarce resources for no direct
+>> benefit. You are free to re-compile QT3 and enable it yourself, which
+>> is what i suggest.
+>
+> You are wrong, there are software which need qt3-devel, but they have been
+> removed from Mageia!
+> I have just taken a look at Mageia "missing package" list, and QCad will be
+> removed because it is built against QT3 (quoting: "qcad: stewb -
+> noimport(started to do this one, but as I understand we'd like to drop Qt3,
+> so I stopped)")
+
+Well, without going into any technical details and only by looking at
+the basic question, there seem to be:
+
+ - Some users who are working with old (but still usable and working!)
+software who are using this with Mandriva, so these users would like
+to be able to use it in another distribution.
+
+ - The devels of that other distribution had to decide which software
+they will import into their new[1] distribution. Given the low
+ressources in manpower at this point in time they had to decide to
+leave this or that package out, especially when the import of such a
+package demands extended support. This means no harm to the users of
+those packages, they can still use them the way they did until now
+(with Mandriva in this case). Therefore the argument by those users
+that they are left out in the rain if this software will not be
+imported is not valid.
+
+Looks to me a valid decision of the devels of the new distribution.
+
+[1] Please do not argue that Mageia is a sequel to Mandriva (somebody
+did that in this thread) because it is not. If Mandriva would have
+closed shop, then you may have a point in asking for some continouity.
+But this is not the case.
+
+-- 
+wobo
+