Re: Qt4 removal plan

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

On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 10:05:04PM +0200, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
> On 25.10.2019 13:29, 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.
> > 
> > Many of the distributions already did it:
> > 
> > https://wiki.debian.org/Qt4Removal
> > 
> > The last version of Qt4 4.8 LTS (4.8.7) was released in 2011 and is
> > unsupported since 2015.
> > 
> > Qt5 is around since 2012.
> > 
> 
> I intend to follow the deprecation with the removal of:
>  - database/luma -- last devel activity was more or less qt3->qt4
>  - qt4 option in pulseaudio (as unmaintained option)
>  - eric4 qt4 ide (eric5 is qt5 as well)
>  - basic256 (qt5 in theory available in 1.1.4.0, release from 2014)
> 
> Candidates for upgrades:
>  - py-hgview
>  - py-tortoisehg
>  - picard
>  - hydrogen
>  - djview4
>  - anki
>  - gns3
>  - mnemosyne
>  - xca
> 
> Unknown status:
> 
>  - qwt6-qt4, qwt-qt4, qwtplot3d-qt4

I have a qwt6-qt5 based on the last release; now trying to get qgis to build

>  - openscad

I'm using it. I didn't notice it depends on kde4

>  - merkaartor
>  - xxdiff
>  - dhcpcd-qt (maintainer roy@) ?
>  - scribus-qt4
>  - bzr-explorer, qbzr -- py2 and qt4 combo
> 
> Is there anything else noteworthy except kde4?

qgis and zyGrib, both depending on qwt6 :)

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