Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 07:43:06 -0500 From: Will Andrews <will@csociety.org> To: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net> Cc: Will Andrews <will@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/astro Makefile ports/audio Makefile ports/converters Makefile ports/deskutils Makefile ports/devel Makefile ports/emulators Makefile ports/ftp Makefile ports/games Message-ID: <20020419124306.GV89460@squall.waterspout.com> In-Reply-To: <20020419080049.S26353-100000@blues.jpj.net> References: <200204190230.g3J2U5b84091@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020419080049.S26353-100000@blues.jpj.net>
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On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 08:14:31AM -0400, Trevor Johnson wrote: > I was the maintainer of this port, and I didn't see any heads-up from you > about your intention to remove it. Did you contact any of the > maintainers? Perhaps with some work, at least some of the ports could > have been patched to use a newer libqt, similar to what was was done when > gtk+ 1.0 was retired. Another possibility would be to figure out > some way of having more than one libqt in the ports system at > once. Maybe it wasn't necessary to destroy so many ports. 1) A PR was sent regarding this in September 2001. There was plenty of advance notice for anyone who was paying attention. 2) If the people who wrote their apps or libraries on Qt1 still haven't ported to a newer version, it's obvious it'll never get done. You can't really "patch" them trivially. QT1 to QT2 or QT3 is not like GTK 1.0 to 1.1 or 1.2... You can re-add the port if there is a version based on a newer version of Qt or one not using Qt 1. Regards, -- wca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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