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Month: January 2011

Re: [trinity-devel] Adding more packages

From: Robert Xu <robxu9@...>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:45:27 -0500
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 13:59, Timothy Pearson
<kb9vqf@...> wrote:
>
> I am excepting Qt here.  My original intent was to kick out software that
> relies on ancient, special purpose libraries that cannot feasibly be
> "resurrected" and maintained.  For example, anything using deprecated and
> removed kernel calls, etc.

So what you mean by this is keep Qt3 for as long as we can?

>
>>
>> Um, Piki, you seem to be on a different page? I think?
>> We have tQT for Qt4 in progress right now.
>> Qt3 is at version 3.3.8c (use the patch on the trinity Wiki)
>> We're not rewriting KDE3 to use Qt4 - we're just going to use tQT to
>> have the missing Qt3 functions work in Qt4.
>> So, like a Qt3 compataility layer on top of qt4
>
> This is correct.

Oh good. Wanted to make sure that I was on the right page ^^
(Piki's boasting about that made me worried I was getting it wrong...)




-- 
later, Robert Xu