Oh, and BTW, this discussion should be in amarok-devel@, not on the user support list...
On Thu, 3 Oct 2019 at 12:46, Myriam Schweingruber <[email protected]> wrote: > Nice discussion to see in the exact week I'm on a holiday... > > On Wed, 2 Oct 2019 at 19:49, Heiko Becker <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Mittwoch, 2. Oktober 2019 18:03:49 CEST, Nate Graham wrote: >> > In general I think a policy of deprecating Qt4-only software >> > makes sense. Qt4 has been or is being removed from distros and >> > nobody supports it anymore. Apps that didn't get ported after >> > all these years are, for all intents and purposes, abandoned and >> > dead. We can un-deprecate them if anyone ever decided to port >> > them, but until then, I support deprecating all Qt4 >> > apps--including Amarok. >> >> FWIW it is ported. Although the porting introduced quite a number of bugs. >> >> >> Indeed, and some distros have already jumped the gun and ship a master > build without notifying their users that they ship a pre-beta version... > About the bugs: those were already there in the Qt4 version, just not that > noticeable. What we need to do is port those pesky Plasma widgets to QML. > It's certainly not hard, but tiresome, at least the most used ones need a > port so we can make a tech preview release. Also, Qt6 is already around the > corner... > > As for the Qt4 versions: we didn't deprecate it on purpose, as there were > still distros shipping it, Suse and Debian are the last to have finally > jumped on the Qt5-wagon. Not talking about CentOS, as they lag behind > pretty much everything anyway... > > So far I don't think we ever removed tarballs, moving to the attic makes > far more sense. > > Did I mention that Amarok was never shipped with KDE application releases > anyway, so I don't see any urgency in here. > > I let the sysadmins decide what is best... > > Regards, Myriam > > > -- > Proud member of the Amarok and KDE Community > Protect your freedom and support the work of the FSFE: > http://www.fsfe.org > <http://www.fsfe.org/> > Please don't send me proprietary file formats, > use ISO standard ODF instead (ISO/IEC 26300) > -- Proud member of the Amarok and KDE Community Protect your freedom and support the work of the FSFE: http://www.fsfe.org <http://www.fsfe.org/> Please don't send me proprietary file formats, use ISO standard ODF instead (ISO/IEC 26300)
