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<B>Colin Guthrie</B>
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<PRE>'Twas brillig, and Kamil Rytarowski at 02/03/12 19:43 did gyre and gimble:
><i> On 02.03.2012 19:55, Thomas Backlund wrote:
</I>>><i> 02.03.2012 20:49, Kamil Rytarowski skrev:
</I>>>><i> Hello!
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> Is possible to ship qt3-devel with Mageia? Half of the the Polish
</I>>>><i> community is demanding it, and because of lack of qt3-devel people can't
</I>>>><i> switch from other Well Known Distros to Mageia.
</I>>>><i>
</I>>><i> NO.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> As stated a million times before...
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> qt3 is obsolete
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> The only reason we have some qt3 runtime support is because of LSB
</I>><i> Sad..
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> Any stuff needed should be ported to qt4.
</I>><i> Actually this is not true. One of our Mageia users (who introduced
</I>><i> Mageia on a dozen of machines) can't switch the next dozen because of
</I>><i> lacking Rivendell Radio Broadcasting software (
</I>><i> <A HREF="http://www.rivendellaudio.org/index.shtml">http://www.rivendellaudio.org/index.shtml</A> ), the other can't use his
</I>><i> favourite qt3 apps, and a few others (including RH employee) are forced
</I>><i> to use Fedora or KDE4.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> If the "obsolete" part is the only reason, then it's not too strong..
</I>><i> the package is maintained and there is *upstream*.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> As of the 3.5.13 release the Trinity project has taken over maintenance
</I>><i> of Qt3.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> This means we are the new "upstream" location for up-to-date Qt3
</I>><i> source code.
</I>><i> Since there have been no updates or stable releases from
</I>><i> Nokia/Trolltech in many years and there are literally hundreds patches
</I>><i> floating around, there was a significant need for a central location.
</I>><i> By maintaining Qt3 it will allow us to continue to improve Qt3
</I>><i> outside the scope of Trinity. It will also provide a central location
</I>><i> for Linux distributions to build packages from, and contributers to
</I>><i> submit code to.
</I>><i> For obvious reasons any Qt3 version released by this project is
</I>><i> licensed under the GPL only; holders of Trolltech Qt licenses may not
</I>><i> use these versions in their proprietary projects.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> <A HREF="http://www.trinitydesktop.org/wiki/bin/view/Documentation/Releases_3_5_13#Qt3">http://www.trinitydesktop.org/wiki/bin/view/Documentation/Releases_3_5_13#Qt3</A>
</I>><i>
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Trinity is currently packaged for Mandriva, OpenSUSE and available for
</I>><i> the main distros.
</I>
I am thoroughly unimpressed with this trinity stuff. Open Source
software gives people freedoms and that's good, but it doesn't stop them
making bad decisions.
Times move on. Why take a legacy bit of software and keep on developing
it? If they *really* cared so much for the KDE3 interface they would
port it to qt4 or even qt5, not limp on with outdated base layers.
Col
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