Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2011 13:05:29 -0300 From: Raphael Kubo da Costa <kubito@gmail.com> To: kde@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [kde-freebsd] Re: KDE3 and Qt3 are not maintained anymore Message-ID: <83iprcep12.fsf@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110708144909.GA17201@sh4-5.1blu.de> (Matthias Apitz's message of "Fri, 8 Jul 2011 16:49:11 %2B0200") References: <201107072350.08766.makc@issp.ac.ru> <4e16b0f4.%2BL09YNoVTdv5v3mW%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <20110708144909.GA17201@sh4-5.1blu.de>
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Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> writes: > Max Brazhnikov <makc@issp.ac.ru> wrote: >> >> The KDE FreeBSD team has officially dropped support for Qt3/KDE3 >> ports. We are not going to remove them in the near future, so >> you can continue to use them. But we strongly recommend you to >> consider alternative solutions. > > While I can understand that KDE3 is not developed further, I'm unhappy > to read that the support for the Qt3/KDE3 ports is dropped; I don't > expect bugs fixed in Qt3/KDE3 anymore It's not that Qt3/KDE3 ports are being removed from the ports tree; the KDE on FreeBSD team is just officially stating that further work on maintaining these ports is not coming from us: nobody in the team has worked on or used Qt3+KDE3 for quite some time, so we prefer to focus our efforts on the current upstream versions. > but at least the ports should be able to compile and maybe adopted to > changes in ports they depend on. I think this has been done sort of automatically lately; when someone updates a port which has had its soversion the dependent ports are usually adjusted as well.
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