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

[Hoyt Duff]

On 3/25/11, Tux99 <tux99-mga at uridium.org> wrote:
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> Quote: yves wrote on Fri, 25 March 2011 09:42
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>> Hi,
>> QT4 is released since 2005, about... 6 years ?
>> So, why is it usefull to maintain a package that "becomes" depreciated
>> ?
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> You are missing the point. QT3 is already part of Mageia and it wasn't me
> who added it. All I'm asking is if there is any compelling reason not to
> enable qt3-devel in the existing qt3
> source package that is part of Mageia.
>
> If there isn't any COMPELLING reason, then qt3-devel should be reenabled as
> long as someone wishes it.
>

You're missing their point.

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.

But I see your point as well. While Mageia may not need it, legacy
apps may. It would seem to make no sense to deliberately break
compatibility with legacy apps on purpose. Indeed, one of the
strengths of Linux is the ability to support legacy apps. And since
qt3-devel is not a stand-alone package and requires a flip of the
switch to produce when they are compiling qt3 anyway, it seems only
logical to go ahead and produce it too.

The people who are responsible for making the final decision have
decided not to do it, leaving you with two choices: either re-compile
it yourself to your satisfaction or fork Mageia and make the decisions
for the forked distro.  Again, i suggest you just re-compile QT3 for
your personal use and make the -devel.srpm and -devel.rpm available
for others to use.

You need to move past this issue.

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Hoyt