From my understanding of Wayland/Mir they both have an X compatibility
layer called X-Wayland and X-Mir (working titles I'm sure). So in
theory we should be ok in terms of X.
QT3 is a bit of a worry longer term though. To put it into perspective
QT4 was released 6 or 7 years ago and QT5 in 2012. There is a migration
path to QT4 with automated tools to handle the tedious work but doing a
quick scout through several hundred thousand lines of Rivendell, it will
be a huge effort to port to QT4.
I'm sure theres many more years of building from source left in QT3 but
it will be a barrier that will only get harder to overcome.
Wasn't there talk of a QT4 branch in the SVN at one point? I'm fairly
certain development stalled but does anyone know the current status of that?
Wayne Merricks
The Voice Asia
On 30/04/14 11:58, Rob Landry wrote:
On Mon, 28 Apr 2014, Andy Sayler wrote:
The deprecation and now removal of QT3 from the Debain/Ubuntu repos
is also
going to continue to be a pain point in newer Ubuntu versions as the
world
moves on with QT5, etc. Does Tryphon have plans to maintain a QT3
package
for newer Ubuntu builds? We're planning to continue building QT3 from
source
if necessary for now, although that's going to get harder and harder
to do
as time moves on since no one is building libraries for QT3 anymore;
especially as the world starts to move off X toward wayland/mir over the
next few years.
I can't imagine anyone deploying a replacement for X that isn't
backward-compatible with it, since pretty much everything in the Un*x
world is written for X.
Rob
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