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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Colin Guthrie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mageia@colin.guthr.ie">mageia@colin.guthr.ie</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
'Twas brillig, and Kamil Rytarowski at 02/03/12 19:43 did gyre and gimble:<br>
<div><div class="h5">> On 02.03.2012 19:55, Thomas Backlund wrote:<br>
>> 02.03.2012 20:49, Kamil Rytarowski skrev:<br>
>>> Hello!<br>
>>><br>
>>> Is possible to ship qt3-devel with Mageia? Half of the the Polish<br>
>>> community is demanding it, and because of lack of qt3-devel people can't<br>
>>> switch from other Well Known Distros to Mageia.<br>
>>><br>
>> NO.<br>
>><br>
>> As stated a million times before...<br>
>><br>
>> qt3 is obsolete<br>
>><br>
>> The only reason we have some qt3 runtime support is because of LSB<br>
> Sad..<br>
>><br>
>> Any stuff needed should be ported to qt4.<br>
> Actually this is not true. One of our Mageia users (who introduced<br>
> Mageia on a dozen of machines) can't switch the next dozen because of<br>
> lacking Rivendell Radio Broadcasting software (<br>
> <a href="http://www.rivendellaudio.org/index.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.rivendellaudio.org/index.shtml</a> ), the other can't use his<br>
> favourite qt3 apps, and a few others (including RH employee) are forced<br>
> to use Fedora or KDE4.<br>
><br>
> If the "obsolete" part is the only reason, then it's not too strong..<br>
> the package is maintained and there is *upstream*.<br>
><br>
> As of the 3.5.13 release the Trinity project has taken over maintenance<br>
> of Qt3.<br>
><br>
> This means we are the new "upstream" location for up-to-date Qt3<br>
> source code.<br>
> Since there have been no updates or stable releases from<br>
> Nokia/Trolltech in many years and there are literally hundreds patches<br>
> floating around, there was a significant need for a central location.<br>
> By maintaining Qt3 it will allow us to continue to improve Qt3<br>
> outside the scope of Trinity. It will also provide a central location<br>
> for Linux distributions to build packages from, and contributers to<br>
> submit code to.<br>
> For obvious reasons any Qt3 version released by this project is<br>
> licensed under the GPL only; holders of Trolltech Qt licenses may not<br>
> use these versions in their proprietary projects.<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://www.trinitydesktop.org/wiki/bin/view/Documentation/Releases_3_5_13#Qt3" target="_blank">http://www.trinitydesktop.org/wiki/bin/view/Documentation/Releases_3_5_13#Qt3</a><br>
><br>
><br>
> Trinity is currently packaged for Mandriva, OpenSUSE and available for<br>
> the main distros.<br>
<br>
</div></div>I am thoroughly unimpressed with this trinity stuff. Open Source<br>
software gives people freedoms and that's good, but it doesn't stop them<br>
making bad decisions.<br>
<br>
Times move on. Why take a legacy bit of software and keep on developing<br>
it? If they *really* cared so much for the KDE3 interface they would<br>
port it to qt4 or even qt5, not limp on with outdated base layers.<br></blockquote><div> </div><div>Funny you say that. I believe they tried with a pkg called qtinterface. Don't quote me, but the gist of it was that qt4 has performance issues in many areas.<br>
<br>It's all POV... I wouldn't call kde4 the panacea of DEs either... so in a sense I agree with you in that it doesn't stop a group of ppl from making a long set of bad decisions....<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Col<br>
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Colin Guthrie<br>
colin(at)<a href="http://mageia.org" target="_blank">mageia.org</a><br>
<a href="http://colin.guthr.ie/" target="_blank">http://colin.guthr.ie/</a><br>
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Day Job:<br>
Tribalogic Limited <a href="http://www.tribalogic.net/" target="_blank">http://www.tribalogic.net/</a><br>
Open Source:<br>
Mageia Contributor <a href="http://www.mageia.org/" target="_blank">http://www.mageia.org/</a><br>
PulseAudio Hacker <a href="http://www.pulseaudio.org/" target="_blank">http://www.pulseaudio.org/</a><br>
Trac Hacker <a href="http://trac.edgewall.org/" target="_blank">http://trac.edgewall.org/</a><br>
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