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From: akuster808 <akuster808@gmail.com>
To: "Burton, Ross" <ross.burton@intel.com>,
	 OE-core <openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>,
	openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: Future of Qt4 recipes
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 16:13:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5589E809.8060000@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJTo0LaKEvtznsdfz8gLWFSLyb6Rx2XsgbYG_cfOrAm+W2UfEg@mail.gmail.com>



On 06/22/2015 03:43 AM, Burton, Ross wrote:
> Hi,
>
> So, Qt 4.8.7 was released last month[1].  Support for Qt4 stops at the
> end of 2015, and 4.8.7 is planned to be the last ever release of Qt4.
> It's still mandated by the long-awaited LSB 5 but I think it's fair to
> say that the majority of developers have moved to Qt5. So, what should
> we do with Qt4 moving forward?[2]  I see several options:
>
> 1) There's still lots of people using Qt4 in production, please keep it
> in oe-core!  (and revisit in six months time)
> 2) Move Qt4 recipes and classes to a meta-qt4 layer now so that oe-core
> 1.9 ships without Qt4, and anyone wanting full LSB compliance or Qt4
> will need to add that layer to their distro.
>
> Personally, I vote for (2).  Any other comments?

#2 sounds fine.

would recipes-lsb move out to its own layer too?

- Armin
>
> Ross
>
> [1] https://blog.qt.io/blog/2015/05/26/qt-4-8-7-released/
> [2] https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7812
>
>


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From: akuster808 <akuster808@gmail.com>
To: "Burton, Ross" <ross.burton@intel.com>,
	 OE-core <openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>,
	openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [OE-core] Future of Qt4 recipes
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 16:13:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5589E809.8060000@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJTo0LaKEvtznsdfz8gLWFSLyb6Rx2XsgbYG_cfOrAm+W2UfEg@mail.gmail.com>



On 06/22/2015 03:43 AM, Burton, Ross wrote:
> Hi,
>
> So, Qt 4.8.7 was released last month[1].  Support for Qt4 stops at the
> end of 2015, and 4.8.7 is planned to be the last ever release of Qt4.
> It's still mandated by the long-awaited LSB 5 but I think it's fair to
> say that the majority of developers have moved to Qt5. So, what should
> we do with Qt4 moving forward?[2]  I see several options:
>
> 1) There's still lots of people using Qt4 in production, please keep it
> in oe-core!  (and revisit in six months time)
> 2) Move Qt4 recipes and classes to a meta-qt4 layer now so that oe-core
> 1.9 ships without Qt4, and anyone wanting full LSB compliance or Qt4
> will need to add that layer to their distro.
>
> Personally, I vote for (2).  Any other comments?

#2 sounds fine.

would recipes-lsb move out to its own layer too?

- Armin
>
> Ross
>
> [1] https://blog.qt.io/blog/2015/05/26/qt-4-8-7-released/
> [2] https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7812
>
>


  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-06-23 23:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-22 10:43 Future of Qt4 recipes Burton, Ross
2015-06-22 10:43 ` Burton, Ross
2015-06-22 14:27 ` Otavio Salvador
2015-06-22 14:27   ` [OE-core] " Otavio Salvador
2015-06-22 21:48 ` Florian Boor
2015-06-22 21:58   ` Philip Balister
2015-06-22 22:14     ` Burton, Ross
2015-06-22 22:50       ` Philip Balister
2015-06-23 23:13 ` akuster808 [this message]
2015-06-23 23:13   ` [OE-core] " akuster808
2015-06-24  0:26   ` Martin Jansa
2015-06-24  0:26     ` [OE-core] " Martin Jansa

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