From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-qk0-f174.google.com (mail-qk0-f174.google.com [209.85.220.174]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B4B673905 for ; Mon, 22 Jun 2015 10:43:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qkeo142 with SMTP id o142so80961258qke.1 for ; Mon, 22 Jun 2015 03:43:37 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type; bh=lMjklm5lh+yYmX27vm7kfpmgcb6qnK6GXbHm68LVo4I=; b=jcpKqzg+gSCG+ioyK3S6IlBs8ITzaFwqJ6ROCIbjjdg+EIJ4Z6pmhS2uGH4cg2xT5e QWCwnbDsE3bWt3P5yaRvgXvxG2pAuS3gosQ/8qeDKP/I6t7xMazeS4DB7G43wostQk3Y vfFwgKBwHCI3BNDrtXnS7Nb69IYKyuVmp5IJP+iHwamqO3A8okQrsEhaaWYiuoH+K6fR vVhHemktdPVzYuk2sWTM8X0dIxPJiikK7ZviQATeMX8wvcgZWVXwVUWKOU4N9VJ8zjmY bqakwx6wIWf7dhk8IzvHLwAOIZFg0iVBoDmaCYYwsH/kDDKxSw4xybeMvtNmAPcUI7kA snYg== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQllnqksbqERVkDpg5pijWFzVGlCmBM7YYaHioMPb8vYsg5RtYQGwvlXnXqtrqf7w+3Yitmm X-Received: by 10.140.89.104 with SMTP id u95mr36390434qgd.15.1434969817130; Mon, 22 Jun 2015 03:43:37 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.140.102.231 with HTTP; Mon, 22 Jun 2015 03:43:17 -0700 (PDT) From: "Burton, Ross" Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 11:43:17 +0100 Message-ID: To: OE-core , openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org Subject: Future of Qt4 recipes X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 10:43:36 -0000 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a11c135f636c210051918f2d1 --001a11c135f636c210051918f2d1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 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? 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 --001a11c135f636c210051918f2d1 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Hi,

So, Qt 4.8.7 was released last month[1].= =C2=A0 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] =C2=A0I se= e several options:

1) There's still lots of pe= ople using Qt4 in production, please keep it in oe-core! =C2=A0(and revisit= in six months time)
2) Move Qt4 recipes and classes to a meta-qt= 4 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.

--001a11c135f636c210051918f2d1-- From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-qg0-f46.google.com (mail-qg0-f46.google.com [209.85.192.46]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78BA573D2F for ; Mon, 22 Jun 2015 10:43:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qged89 with SMTP id d89so51103468qge.0 for ; Mon, 22 Jun 2015 03:43:37 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type; bh=lMjklm5lh+yYmX27vm7kfpmgcb6qnK6GXbHm68LVo4I=; b=XKP+89fp10u/J5cWzvUNn9U13qOrAfq/Kflcm7P0iN5Di87K60sRMVUKr5zziFLOcj INs4VmIm6lgMj0hmc/DQOYS1xzm7Q91co2ukbOecV/JdIlXhX2IOJh5TntpOKykNZx/w qZsq4BkVBeYTXF7m27QnPwRvqjEg1gj5xqcUJKELzm13Bv5QTPL7Xa0oKG4L8y5GyGnP 3/pkYsZh+LXXCkP/8IYBoh59B9/tuX3fjwZoQ7DnzRz+gR+/yHQayYUZ9S71g6w6lsU0 QW+FaNnlAw6oQMuSYxkpW9u+dTI4EYTXk8+buSr7NyS0sokbN17ofonyALXWBsfZv8Z9 8NnA== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQlP2ZZDcqjW8wLG1H+cTkETyT1fNXBX3s3y703K03bM31y+pefE15268Mlx1+pjCw/k+vtH X-Received: by 10.140.89.104 with SMTP id u95mr36390434qgd.15.1434969817130; Mon, 22 Jun 2015 03:43:37 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.140.102.231 with HTTP; Mon, 22 Jun 2015 03:43:17 -0700 (PDT) From: "Burton, Ross" Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 11:43:17 +0100 Message-ID: To: OE-core , openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.12 Subject: Future of Qt4 recipes X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 10:43:36 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 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? 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