[kde-freebsd] QT Mobility?

Kris Moore kris at pcbsd.org
Mon Apr 15 13:57:35 UTC 2013


On 04/10/2013 14:43, Oliver Heesakkers wrote:
> Op ma 08 apr 2013 21:52:38 schreef David Naylor:
>> Hi Kris, Oliver
>>
>> On Thursday, 4 April 2013 20:58:32 Oliver Heesakkers wrote:
>>> Op do 04 apr 2013 08:00:08 schreef Kris Moore:
>>>> We have a developer who is asking about Qt Mobility support on FreeBSD.
>>>> Is anybody interested in trying to make a port out of this?
>>> I have built qt-mobility (1.2.0) in the past, as a dependency of MoNav.
>>> According to my notes this was a pretty painless experience.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, as the MoNav project now seems dormant, I don't have a real
>>> use for it these days, which makes me less interested in maintaining a
>>> port.
>>>
>>> So yes, I'll happily (help to) make one, but someone else should maintain
>>> it.
>> I'm willing to create and maintain a qtmobility port however I do not have
>> time for it this week.
>>
>> Oliver, if you have the time you are welcome to create the port (which I can
>> commit for you), just put me as maintainer (dbn at FreeBSD.org).  I can help
>> you starting next week sometime.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> David
>
> I did have a little look this past weekend, but qt doesn't appear to offer 
> readily available downloads for qt-mobility anymore and a fork has popped up 
> on gitorious. Qt5 appears to include the mobility stuff in the base 
> distribution, but I assume the request is for the qt4 version.
>
> Do we want the gitorious version?
> If not, where to get the 1.2.2 source code (I only have a copy of the 1.2.0 
> version).
>
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> 	Oliver
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Well, if its going to be included in QT5 then I would say lets just wait
for that. Hate to go through the work of a possible unmaintained fork,
when 5 is just around the corner.

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