Just to be clear: Qt4 LXQt *is* abandonware. 0.8 officially still support Qt4 but it will be dropped very soon after the release. If it has bugs, barring a 0.8.1 release there will not be any fixes for specifically qt4... J. Leclanche
2014-09-08 21:34 GMT+02:00 Luís Pereira <luis.artur.pere...@gmail.com>: > On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Brendan Perrine <walteror...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> The only reason I see to have both is if you want to triage bugs or test the >> quality of both the Qt4 and Qt5 versions. > For me, that's precisely the point. It's not about the user neither > packagers, it's about development. > >> The work around for testing or triaging bugs on Qt4 and Qt5 at the same time >> might be to dual boot or to use a virtual machine or another computer. > > For me, they are not good options and I will end up only working in > one version. With a big enough team that wouldn't be a problem. But > with a small team like the one we have I think the Qt4 version will > become "abandon-aware". LXQt 0.7 was the first "stable" release, if > the 0.8 turns LXQt Qt4 in "abandon-aware" we might not get user trust. > Qt5 is great and we should focus the active development in it. But > there is a share of "weak machines" that can't afford LXQt Qt5. > > -- > Luís Pereira > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Want excitement? > Manually upgrade your production database. > When you want reliability, choose Perforce > Perforce version control. Predictably reliable. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157508191&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Lxde-list mailing list > Lxde-list@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want excitement? Manually upgrade your production database. When you want reliability, choose Perforce Perforce version control. Predictably reliable. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157508191&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Lxde-list mailing list Lxde-list@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list
