Re: removing py-qt3-*?

[Greg Oster <oster%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 13:04:04 -0600
Greg Oster <oster%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 17:26:51 +0200
> Thomas Klausner <tk%giga.or.at@localhost> wrote:
> 
> > Hi!
> > 
> > py-qt3 is not maintained upstream any longer; they "only" support
> > py-qt4 and py-qt5.
> > 
> > That in itself wouldn't be a problem, but all three of these use
> > py-sip, and py-qt3 isn't buildable against the latest py-sip.
> > 
> > So I took a look at what is using py-qt3 in pkgsrc. Here's the list:
> > 
> > databases/luma (last release and homepage update: 2008, pkgsrc
> > version from 2006) devel/eric3 (devel/eric4 using qt4 is already in
> > pkgsrc) misc/kodos (last release from 2006)
> > misc/mnemosyne (should be updated to 2.3.1, I'll take a look)
> > wm/icecc (last release from 2004)
> > 
> > and of course the packages for py-qt3 themselves, x11/py-qt3*
> > 
> > Would anyone miss any of these terribly?
> 
> I use luma fairly frequently, but I'd be happy to switch to something
> with similar functionality and that is actively maintained... now if I
> could just find that something... :-/ 

Actually.... Luma 3.0.7 is available:

 http://sourceforge.net/projects/luma/files/luma/

and was last updated in late 2012.

Later...

Greg Oster