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Re: Qt4 removal plan



On 26.10.2019 22:05, 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

Work in Progress on my side.

>  - picard

I have got a patch that switches it to qt5, but it dues break with a
cryptic C++ exception.

>  - hydrogen

Switched to qt5.

>  - djview4

Switched to qt5.

>  - anki

This one is not recoverable. We need:

1. finished work on futexes (is it viable for NetBSD 10.0?)
2. ported chromium (I don't want to work on it before sorting out futexes)
3. ported qt5-qtwebengine that wraps chromium
4. packaged py-qt5-qtwebengine

>  - gns3
>  - mnemosyne
>  - xca
> 
> Unknown status:
> 
>  - qwt6-qt4, qwt-qt4, qwtplot3d-qt4
>  - openscad
>  - merkaartor
>  - xxdiff
>  - dhcpcd-qt (maintainer roy@) ?
>  - scribus-qt4
>  - bzr-explorer, qbzr -- py2 and qt4 combo
> 
> Is there anything else noteworthy except kde4?
> 


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