> On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 18:51:13 +0200
> /dev/ammo42 <mickeytintincolle@...> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 11:07:05 -0500
>> "David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@...> wrote:
>>
>> > On 04/28/2012 08:27 AM, E. Liddell wrote:
>> > > I poked the git server at freedesktop.org, where poppler resides,
>> > > and found what appears to be the series of commits that removed QT3
>> > > support (five on Jan. 16, 2011, plus an outlier about a month
>> > > later).  Full diffs for these commits are stored, so depending on
>> > > how much the codebase has changed in the past year, we may be able
>> > > to just revert them.
>> >
>> > That would be fantastic. I may still have all the older poppler
>> > sources (somewhere). I we can just revert the changes in the current
>> > code, that would be the best case, but if not, I have the last
>> > freedesktop sources before the commits. I'll hunt them down if
>> > needed, but I guess you GIT masters could just tell freedesktop to
>> > spit the code out as it existed on 1/15/2011.
>> >
>> > For my education -- "How do you do that?" Say I wanted to clone the
>> > repository as it existed prior to the 1/16/2011 changes, what would
>> > the git command look like?
>> IIRC:
>>
>> git clone <the repository>
>> git checkout <the sha1 you want> .
>
> Checkout information for the repository is given at
> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Infrastructure/git/Users .
>
> For precise reference, the first QT3-killing commit appears to be
>
> d82f98a274bfa008c218e265a080c4af7ce95131
>
> and I think the commit immediately prior to it was
>
> 301352e5585d4ab6e7b609b4ab79b4d8b8656092
>
> on Jan. 9.  The other QT3-killing commits were:
>
> 8dc9c693abb0033247a338d0f7d1f3f7a57c1a55
> 26da7a52d31eb677ab6399de2c07140aa272b35e
> 9a02856c2762e65b8f03e443e728e05e5a86f65b
> 76ab657dc81ed0af7d9f2efaca2e68d570063001
> 728c022cdc1ea12aa54077d44276f9d7714930d4
>
> I haven't read over the diffs in detail, but they seem to be
> pure code erasure (many files were removed wholesale,
> plus some switches in the build code).  We might just
> be okay.

We already have poppler-tqt, based on the Qt3 support for poppler, so I 'm
somewhat confused with the interest in the original Qt3 support files for
poppler.

Tim