Qt3 removal rational

2011-02-08 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
I comaintain upstream qucs a simulator of electronics circuit and the only free one able to simulate radio frequency circuit. In the scientific field a lot of software depend of qt3. And a lot of uptream lack ressource to port to qt4. At my workplace (university) we are using a lot this kind of

Re: Qt3 removal rational

2011-02-08 Thread Adrian Knoth
On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 12:42:38PM +0100, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: In the scientific field a lot of software depend of qt3. And a lot of Same for kpicosim, but I'm pretty confident that I can run qt3to4 on it and simply link with qt4's qt3 support library. Last time I tried, the whole process

Re: Qt3 removal rational

2011-02-08 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Tuesday 08 February 2011 08:42:38 Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: I comaintain upstream qucs a simulator of electronics circuit and the only free one able to simulate radio frequency circuit. In the scientific field a lot of software depend of qt3. And a lot of uptream lack ressource to port to

Re: Qt3 removal rational

2011-02-08 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Wednesday 09 February 2011 01.12:57 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: Of course, we can simply orphan Qt 3, and hope somebody will step up to maintain it; we are unconvinced this is a responsible step for us to take as it would place the maintenance burden of a large package onto