[Mageia-dev] qt3-devel

Fri Mar 2 20:43:43 CET 2012

On 02.03.2012 19:55, Thomas Backlund wrote:
+> 02.03.2012 20:49, Kamil Rytarowski skrev:
+>> Hello!
+>>
+>> Is possible to ship qt3-devel with Mageia? Half of the the Polish
+>> community is demanding it, and because of lack of qt3-devel people can't
+>> switch from other Well Known Distros to Mageia.
+>>
+> NO.
+>
+> As stated a million times before...
+>
+> qt3 is obsolete
+>
+> The only reason we have some qt3 runtime support is because of LSB
+Sad..
+>
+> Any stuff needed should be ported to qt4.
+Actually this is not true. One of our Mageia users (who introduced 
+Mageia on a dozen of machines) can't switch the next dozen because of 
+lacking Rivendell Radio Broadcasting software ( 
+http://www.rivendellaudio.org/index.shtml ), the other can't use his 
+favourite qt3 apps, and a few others (including RH employee) are forced 
+to use Fedora or KDE4.
+
+If the "obsolete" part is the only reason, then it's not too strong.. 
+the package is maintained and there is *upstream*.
+
+As of the 3.5.13 release the Trinity project has taken over maintenance 
+of Qt3.
+
+     This means we are the new "upstream" location for up-to-date Qt3 
+source code.
+     Since there have been no updates or stable releases from 
+Nokia/Trolltech in many years and there are literally hundreds patches 
+floating around, there was a significant need for a central location.
+     By maintaining Qt3 it will allow us to continue to improve Qt3 
+outside the scope of Trinity. It will also provide a central location 
+for Linux distributions to build packages from, and contributers to 
+submit code to.
+     For obvious reasons any Qt3 version released by this project is 
+licensed under the GPL only; holders of Trolltech Qt licenses may not 
+use these versions in their proprietary projects.
+
+http://www.trinitydesktop.org/wiki/bin/view/Documentation/Releases_3_5_13#Qt3
+
+Trinity is currently packaged for Mandriva, OpenSUSE and available for 
+the main distros.
+>
+> --
+> Thomas
+>
+BTW. Your statement trigged outcry to start forking Mga :)
+