On 10/08/17 08:44, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > Carsten, > > Thanks for the heads up. > > > On 14/09/2017 13:28, Carsten Leonhardt wrote: >> Hi, >> >> QT4 is out of support since December 2015[1]. The QT maintainers in Debian >> plan to not ship it in the next Debian release[2] (which will probably be >> in 2019). It has to be assumed that other distributions will take the >> same step in the near future. >> >> Are there plans to update bat to use QT5? A list of API changes >> can be found here[3]. > > Yes there are plans to update to Qt 5, but sometimes with such nice web > interfaces (BWeb, Baculum, ...) I wonder whether it is really worth the > effort.
The principal problem with the web interfaces, from my personal point of view, is primarily that they require PHP. (I, and many others, refuse to run PHP because it has historically been such a tremendous security hole. In roughly half of all customer server compromises that my employer has to clean up and remediate, the attack vector is PHP.) A secondary factor is that honestly, I have never been a fan of the "everything is a web application" model. In functional use terms, this is largely because we have to choose between web browsers which do *not* isolate each web application in its own thread or process, and which stop responding altogether if a single application or even a single *script* running in them becomes temporarily unresponsive or crashes; or browsers which *do* isolate web applications in their own threads or processes - which at present pretty much means Chrome, which is a memory and resource hog. Choose your poison. I much prefer to have a separate standalone application such as BAT as my GUI console, even if it perhaps isn't as pretty as Baculum, and I would be sad if it were to go away. It has aged well, works well, and has no significant bugs aside from a few already-reported issues involving multiple redundant notification dialogs. -- Phil Stracchino Babylon Communications ph...@caerllewys.net p...@co.ordinate.org Landline: +1.603.293.8485 Mobile: +1.603.998.6958 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list Bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
