On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Maarten Vanraes <maarten.vanr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Op donderdag 24 maart 2011 20:55:47 schreef Ahmad Samir: >> On 24 March 2011 21:36, Maarten Vanraes <maarten.vanr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Op donderdag 24 maart 2011 14:10:39 schreef Romain d'Alverny: >> >> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 09:13, Tux99 <tux99-...@uridium.org> wrote: >> >> > Like I said before, KDE3.5 coexisted very well with KDE4 since 2009.1 >> >> > on Mandriva and Trinity is even more so being developed with >> >> > coexistence in mind, so there shouldn't be any unsolvable issues. >> >> >> >> Maybe it did coexist well at a significant cost on the packaging side? >> >> (time, packaging compromises) and maybe the situation isn't exactly >> >> the same as then? >> >> >> >> > This is exactly what I would call a reasonable factual argumentation. >> >> >> >> But an argument is not going to make anyone progress one way or the >> >> other here obviously. If there are fears, then provide facts to >> >> counter them (no argument, but facts). >> >> >> >> You propose to add TDE in the repository. After this discussion, the >> >> next step is you to first package TDE, build and test and >> >> see/demonstrate how it goes, regarding at least these 5 points >> >> (summarized from above) before an integration is considered: >> >> 1. no conflict on files >> >> 2. install in %_prefix (not in /opt) >> >> 3. no duplicate software name (do not confuse user to decide between >> >> tde-k3b and k3b for instance - or find a realistic workaround use >> >> case). >> >> 4. at this point, no apps outside of the TDE project should require TDE >> >> 5. committed maintainers >> >> >> >> Romain >> > >> > also promising to maintain qt3 as long as it's needed and here, the same >> > thing, not conflicting with qt4 in any way >> >> How could a packager propose to maintain qt3 when it's been dead >> upstream for years? so no upstream support/patches/whatever... > > yes, it would be a huge amount of work; and that's exactly the reason i > proposed to OP to just wait until it's qt4. >
this will just remove the qt3 issue bug all the other issues will still be valid.