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Re: Qt4 removal plan



On 25.10.2019 17:17, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 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
> 
> Actually librecad is still working; I use it occasionally on files that
> qcad can't proceed properly ...
> 

OK, I will upgrade it to RC in wip/ for research whether it will be
functional.

>>
>> 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/
> 
> no idea what this one it ...
> 


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