Re: Qt4 removal plan

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 05:13:45PM +0200, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
> On 25.10.2019 16:55, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 01:29:31PM +0200, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
> >> I propose to obsolete and remove Qt4 from pkgsrc.
> >>
> >> Most of the existing users of qt4 packages are KDE4, everything else is
> >> dead upstream.
> > 
> > What packages are concerned ? "dead upstream" doesn't mean it's not used.
> > 
> 
> From the concerned packages: librecad. No release since 2016.
> 
> Last RC with qt5 was 2 years ago.
> 
> https://github.com/LibreCAD/LibreCAD/releases
> 
> They might have bigger problems with dependencies as FSF moved to GPLv3
> and GPLv2 is incompatible.
> 
> Another one is SASM
> 
> https://github.com/Dman95/SASM/
> 
> I propose to remove them and restore once they will be released (if
> ever) with qt5+ support.
> 
> If there is anything else, speak up.

There is also zyGrib, which depends on qwt6-qt4.
I use this one on a regular basis.

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