RFC: remove qt-copy

[Michael Pyne]

On Monday 25 May 2009 16:54:53 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> hi all ...
>
> since it's finally come up on the kde-commit list, i'd like to make a
> "formal" proposal regarding qt-copy, namely:
>
> Downsides
> ----------------
> It means using git, not something everyone is comfortable with. This is
> nearly a moot point, however, as that move seems inevitable; while there
> isn't unanimity on the topic (and I doubt that's realistically achievable;
> it's a little like whitespace conventions ;) there as an apparent general
> consensus on the matter.
>
> It means checking out and building Qt again.

It is not (yet) supported by kdesvn-build. ;)

> Implementation
> ---------------------
> Someone will need to make sure that all of our patches are already in
> kde-qt if they aren't already.
>
> Someone will need to update any articles on Techbase that refer to qt-copy
> and provide a step-by-step on how to use kde-qt. This might be a nice
> exercise in starting to put together a "Using KDE's git repositories"
> information we'll need in the future anyways (assuming that the KDE git
> transition does actually occur)
>
> Someone will need to provide a formal announcement so everyone has a heads
> up along with pointers to the above instructions.
>
> Someone will need to actually remove qt-copy from svn after the grace
> period following the announcement (1 week? 2? 3?).

Someone (mpyne?) will need to port kdesvn-build to use kde-qt instead of qt-
copy.

With that said, don't let kdesvn-build hold up progress if it's really 
important and I don't get time to hack it in then someone else will provide a 
working patch. ;)

Regards,
 - Michael Pyne
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