Greetings,
We have already discussed this point (see e.g. [1]), but recently the
QT4 subsystem got completely broken (at least, qucs-s GUI is now totally
unusable: menus are messed up, no correspondence b/w component's symbols
and names, empty pop-ups, ...)
Just to prove that it wasn't an issue of my system(s), I installed it in
a brand new VM, seeing the same behavior.
In my opinion, keeping it into the tree doesn't make any sense (except
if someone steps up to review what is going wrong, but that's not me: QT
libraries are definitely beyond my skills...); and, considering that
this port is the last surviving consumer for QT4, remaining pieces can
be safely removed too.
All major Linux distributions and FreeBSD already removed both qucs (the
parent project of this port) and QT4 since months; on the other hand,
last commit in the official qucs-s tree is from Feb 2020, so it seems
that there is low interest in evolving towards QT5, at least in the
short run (qucs has a development branch almost compatible w/ QT5, so
once ready, maybe qucs-s developers will find reasons to reconsider the
transition).
Alternatives exist, too (xschem and kicad/eeschema come to mind, as I
mentioned in my previous e-mail).
OK from maintainer if anyone wants to remove this port.
Cheers
[1]: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=161168750901727&w=2
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