On Tue, Jan 6, 2015, at 12:52 PM, René J.V. Bertin wrote: > On Tuesday January 06 2015 11:48:46 Michael Dickens wrote: > > > There just isn't enough time in the day! Some day, I won't be so crazy > > busy! Some day, I really will address the Qt4 tickets. I really do like > > the idea of having Qt4 and Qt5 available at the same time & I know that > > Qt4 needs some attention (as does Qt5, but I haven't even found time for > > Do you use port:qt4-mac yourself? If so, it won't necessarily take a lot > of time to install it in concurrent mode, esp. if you've kept your > work/build tree around. Given the lack of feedback, I was actually > planning to make +concurrent the default (= remove the variant), and add > a +exclusive variant corresponding to the current default behaviour. That > might make testing even easier...
Yes, I use Qt4 in my work as well as a bunch of other display technologies. We're working on transitioning to Qt5 as the primary display technology we use; it's a lot of work! Among the other jobs I'm working on right now. If you want to work me off-list/off-ticket, that could work for me. Email me off-list if you want to try this method & I'll do what I can. > > the Qt4 stuff yet). Both ports are listed as 'openmaintainer' if anybody > > else -really- wants to go there :) - MLD > > Hmm, yeah, I can understand why few people feel like taking up an > official maintainer status for that kind of port ... I don't minds doing "openmaintainer" for most of my ports. That said, Qt[45] are -huge- ports in terms of both build time as well as dependents; I think the compiler ports (gcc*, llvm*, clang*) have roughly the same level of complication / (potential areas for issues) that Qt[45] do. Even on my reasonably modern MacBook Pro Retina, Qt4 still takes ~1 hour to compile -- which is way too long for the usual QA I do for most of my other ports. I think it's this level of complexity that turns people off, makes them not want to take up as a co-maintainer or anything even related to that. The rest of the ports I maintain, OTOH, take no more than 10 minutes to build, so those are pretty easy to do patching / QA testing. _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
