At this point, even QT4 is 8 years old. If work was going to be invest to pull Rivendell off QT3, it would probably make sense to go straight to QT5.
Maintaining QT3 support once it gets pulled from the standard repos for Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, etc is doable, but it does start to bring into question security issues that are no longer being patched, etc. There is also the fact that X is on it's way out. Maintaining support for QT3 is one thing, but maintaining support for the entire X stack once the world has moved on to Wayland and/or Mir over the course of the next few years will likely become untenable. On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:11 PM, Luigino Bracci <[email protected]> wrote: > I hoped that Rivendell in Qt4 should fix the internationalization problems > that Rivendell-Qt3 have with special characters :( > > > 2013/9/25 Alban Peignier <[email protected]> > >> Hi all, >> >> Fred Gleason wrote: >> >> > One of the great things about Open Source is that Qt3 will always be >> > available, so there is really no compelling need to make this >> > change. >> >> It's certainly true for most of libraries. But Qt3 has a lot of >> dependencies [0]. Even if we manage to provide Qt3 for new Debian / >> Ubuntu releases, the Qt3 dependency will become a problem. We just don't >> know when. >> >> A Qt4 rewrite is a big challenge too. So no good solution for the moment >> :-/ >> >> [0] at least : http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/libqt3-mt >> -- >> Alban Peignier - [email protected] >> >> Tryphon : Radio, Web et Logiciels Libres >> http://www.tryphon.eu >> _______________________________________________ >> Rivendell-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev > >
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