Re: [oe] [OE-core] Future of Qt4 recipes
On 06/22/2015 03:43 AM, Burton, Ross wrote: Hi, So, Qt 4.8.7 was released last month[1]. Support for Qt4 stops at the end of 2015, and 4.8.7 is planned to be the last ever release of Qt4. It's still mandated by the long-awaited LSB 5 but I think it's fair to say that the majority of developers have moved to Qt5. So, what should we do with Qt4 moving forward?[2] I see several options: 1) There's still lots of people using Qt4 in production, please keep it in oe-core! (and revisit in six months time) 2) Move Qt4 recipes and classes to a meta-qt4 layer now so that oe-core 1.9 ships without Qt4, and anyone wanting full LSB compliance or Qt4 will need to add that layer to their distro. Personally, I vote for (2). Any other comments? #2 sounds fine. would recipes-lsb move out to its own layer too? - Armin Ross [1] https://blog.qt.io/blog/2015/05/26/qt-4-8-7-released/ [2] https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7812 -- ___ Openembedded-devel mailing list Openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
Re: [oe] [OE-core] Future of Qt4 recipes
I agree with #2. Argument that it's still used by many projects shouldn't be used against layers :). On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 1:13 AM, akuster808 akuster...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/22/2015 03:43 AM, Burton, Ross wrote: Hi, So, Qt 4.8.7 was released last month[1]. Support for Qt4 stops at the end of 2015, and 4.8.7 is planned to be the last ever release of Qt4. It's still mandated by the long-awaited LSB 5 but I think it's fair to say that the majority of developers have moved to Qt5. So, what should we do with Qt4 moving forward?[2] I see several options: 1) There's still lots of people using Qt4 in production, please keep it in oe-core! (and revisit in six months time) 2) Move Qt4 recipes and classes to a meta-qt4 layer now so that oe-core 1.9 ships without Qt4, and anyone wanting full LSB compliance or Qt4 will need to add that layer to their distro. Personally, I vote for (2). Any other comments? #2 sounds fine. would recipes-lsb move out to its own layer too? - Armin Ross [1] https://blog.qt.io/blog/2015/05/26/qt-4-8-7-released/ [2] https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7812 -- ___ Openembedded-core mailing list openembedded-c...@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core -- ___ Openembedded-devel mailing list Openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
Re: [oe] [OE-core] Future of Qt4 recipes
I vote for 2 as well. Em 22/06/2015 07:44, Burton, Ross ross.bur...@intel.com escreveu: Hi, So, Qt 4.8.7 was released last month[1]. Support for Qt4 stops at the end of 2015, and 4.8.7 is planned to be the last ever release of Qt4. It's still mandated by the long-awaited LSB 5 but I think it's fair to say that the majority of developers have moved to Qt5. So, what should we do with Qt4 moving forward?[2] I see several options: 1) There's still lots of people using Qt4 in production, please keep it in oe-core! (and revisit in six months time) 2) Move Qt4 recipes and classes to a meta-qt4 layer now so that oe-core 1.9 ships without Qt4, and anyone wanting full LSB compliance or Qt4 will need to add that layer to their distro. Personally, I vote for (2). Any other comments? Ross [1] https://blog.qt.io/blog/2015/05/26/qt-4-8-7-released/ [2] https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7812 -- ___ Openembedded-core mailing list openembedded-c...@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core -- ___ Openembedded-devel mailing list Openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
