pkg kde talk - Jul 2005 - The future of Qt3

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Hello,

Now that Qt4 is entering the archive and the gcc 4.0 transition is upon us,=20
it would be nice to work out the future of Qt3. Martin, you had mentioned=20
that post-Sarge you would be giving up Qt3 at an unspecified point where=20
you predicted you would no longer have the necessary time. If you
don''t=20
object, I would suggest that now is a good time to make the hand-over to=20
the Debian Qt/KDE team.

In fact, I''ve already been working on an update for Qt3, and will be=20
checking it into SVN very shortly (in the people/chrsmrtn/packages section=20
for the moment, but people should feel free to move/change the packaging as=20
they see fit).

This update fixes a number of issues, I think. I say "I think" because
I''m=20
not a Qt expert and so don''t trust myself. More than the usual peer
review=20
would be great (especially from Brian). Highlights (for the moment) include=20
no more non-threaded libraries, and a debugging package. These packages do=20
not yet include the necessary changes for the gcc 4.0 transition, the X.Org=20
transition, nor do they include the #306879 patch for co-existence with=20
Qt4. Brian, in that report you mention that the patch for Qt3 is not=20
certain to be complete. Now that Qt4 is ready, does the #306879 patch need=20
updating? Feel free to make SVN commits yourself, of course.

Anyway, if Martin doesn''t object, and I haven''t done anything
too=20
outrageous, then hopefully we can come out of the gcc 4.0 transition with=20
nice new Qt3 and Qt4 packages (that co-exist nicely).

I will be quite slow in responding to e-mail for some time yet, but I will=20
be here for further discussion.

Cheers,
Christopher Martin

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On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 10:42:17PM +0000, Christopher Martin wrote:
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> This update fixes a number of issues, I think. I say "I think"
because I''m
> not a Qt expert and so don''t trust myself. More than the usual
peer review
> would be great (especially from Brian). Highlights (for the moment) include
> no more non-threaded libraries, and a debugging package. These packages do 
> not yet include the necessary changes for the gcc 4.0 transition, the X.Org
> transition, nor do they include the #306879 patch for co-existence with 
> Qt4. Brian, in that report you mention that the patch for Qt3 is not 
> certain to be complete. Now that Qt4 is ready, does the #306879 patch need 
> updating? Feel free to make SVN commits yourself, of course.
Err, from what I remember, that patch should be fine, aside from
requiring some of the manpages to be renamed.  I think the affected
manpages are included in the Debian diff, so a simple renaming of the
files in question should suffice.

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