getting rid of qt3support in kde-workspace

Boudewijn Rempt boud at calcifer.valdyas.org
Wed May 25 19:32:55 BST 2011


On Wed, 25 May 2011, Albert Astals Cid wrote:

> A Wednesday, May 25, 2011, Aaron J. Seigo va escriure:
>> hi :)
>>
>> i just finished pushing a set of changes to the (ironically named?)
>> qt3support branch in kde-workspace which leaves no traces of qt3support or
>> kde3support left in that module. huzzah!
>>
>> i'm ok with holding on to the branch until 4.8, but if there is interest in
>> getting this into 4.7 it should be a fairly safe merge and would allow
>> distributors to ship kde-workspace without a dependency on qt3/kde3support.
>
> Is there a real demand for this?

Yes, I'd say there's a real demand. qt3/kde3 support takes space and 
qt3-support doesn't exist on OSX anymore, and is going to disappear 
everywhere else. After Qt 4.8, no Qt3 support anymore. Best get it removed 
everywhere as soon as possible. (As well as QWidget/QPainter code, too,
of course.)

Boudewijn




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