Deprecating Old Amarok Versions

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Oh, and BTW, this discussion should be in amarok-devel@, not on the user
support list...

On Thu, 3 Oct 2019 at 12:46, Myriam Schweingruber <myriam at kde.org> wrote:

> Nice discussion to see in the exact week I'm on a holiday...
>
> On Wed, 2 Oct 2019 at 19:49, Heiko Becker <mail at heiko-becker.de> wrote:
>
>> On Mittwoch, 2. Oktober 2019 18:03:49 CEST, Nate Graham wrote:
>> > In general I think a policy of deprecating Qt4-only software
>> > makes sense. Qt4 has been or is being removed from distros and
>> > nobody supports it anymore. Apps that didn't get ported after
>> > all these years are, for all intents and purposes, abandoned and
>> > dead. We can un-deprecate them if anyone ever decided to port
>> > them, but until then, I support deprecating all Qt4
>> > apps--including Amarok.
>>
>> FWIW it is ported. Although the porting introduced quite a number of bugs.
>>
>>
>> Indeed, and some distros have already jumped the gun and ship a master
> build without notifying their users that they ship a pre-beta version...
> About the bugs: those were already there in the Qt4 version, just not that
> noticeable. What we need to do is port those pesky Plasma widgets to QML.
> It's certainly not hard, but tiresome, at least the most used ones need a
> port so we can make a tech preview release. Also, Qt6 is already around the
> corner...
>
> As for the Qt4 versions: we didn't deprecate it on purpose, as there were
> still distros shipping it, Suse and Debian are the last to have finally
> jumped on the Qt5-wagon. Not talking about CentOS, as they lag behind
> pretty much everything anyway...
>
> So far I don't think we ever removed tarballs, moving to the attic makes
> far more sense.
>
> Did I mention that Amarok was never shipped with KDE application releases
> anyway, so I don't see any urgency in here.
>
> I let the sysadmins decide what is best...
>
> Regards, Myriam
>
>
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