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

[Maarten Vanraes]

Op donderdag 24 maart 2011 22:09:50 schreef Dexter Morgan:
> 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.

i'm hoping that by that time, that some apps will be the KDE4 apps or really 
their own apps.

And in any case, it's a lot less work.

The way i see it, it's seems there's:
A) alot of work to maintain this
B) quite some potential issues
C) seemingly not alot of benefits

B is the main point here, if they are dedicated to it, and can give good 
points on B. then sure, why not. IF they can also handle A.

but don't get me wrong, there is not much chance of me actually using TDE.