Sounds great - thanks very much for stepping up to do that.
Please ping me if I don't respond to a gerrit review in a timely fashion!
I definitely will review patches on gerrit associated with the module.

Best regards,
Chris.


On Tue, May 26, 2026 at 11:16 PM Adriaan de Groot <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tuesday, 19 May 2026 17:39:14 CEST Vladimir Minenko via Development
> wrote:
> > As one of those folks, I looked up Qt Support cases. The last one for
> QtPIM
> > was from 2019, and it was only about problems to just compile it.
>
> OK, that is a fairly clear "this isn't used by customers" kind of answer.
> I
> can't speculate about why there would be problems compiling QtPIM --
> unless
> -Wall -Werror is in play, because the code has not been updating for newer
> compilers with picky defaults (or, for instance, downstream consumers
> switching to newer C++ standards).
>
> > In general, I have my serious doubts if QtPIM fits into Qt as it is
> today,
> > in 2026, or should be tomorrow, if I may add. ... I wish
> > today’s Qt would keep being focused on functionality at its current layer
> > in the overall API stack. There is still a lot of work to do. Any PIM
> APIs
> > sit on a higher API level and are much more application-specific than
> > almost any other API in Qt today.
>
> That is clear enough. Here's what I'll do:
>
> I will continue throwing things about deprecations at Gerrit (e.g. missing
> includes to make it compile at all, post-Qt5-deprecations, ...) when I
> have
> them worked out. There's a dozen or more items out there already, e.g.
> Qt::UTC
> becoming QTimeZone::UTC is one uninteresting bunch of commits.
>
> Simultaneously, I'll do a CMake port and throw that at Gerrit as well.
> There
> might be C++ code changes in that branch too -- I don't know if QtPIM can
> even
> compile as-is against any reasonably-recent Qt release.
>
> *Downstream*, in KDE Invent (or whatever) I'll merge these various kinds
> of
> fixes into something I can tag and package for Linux distro's who need
> QtPIM
> data structures and data-handling, who would like to leave Qt5 behind.
>
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