[Gambas-devel] Removal of gambas2 from Debian

[José Luis Redrejo Rodríguez]

2011/3/8 Benoît Minisini <gambas at ...1...>:
>> Hi,
>> Debian has among its targets for the next release removing kde3 and
>> qt3 from its archive.
>> As far as I know, gambas2 can not be compiled against  qt4 and kde4.
>>
>> If that's not the case and it can be done, please tell it to me,
>> otherwise I'll ask for the removal of gambas2 from the Debian archive
>> within a week.
>>
>> Regards.
>> José L.
>>
>
> OK. Gambas 2 will never compile agains qt4, so you should ask for its removal.
>
> But:
>
> Qt3 is graphically faster than Qt4 most of the time.
>
> Qt3 uses less memory.
>
> Qt3 is usable through the network (X11 and NX), whereas Qt4 is far too slow,
> because it caches everything.
>
> So if find that decision absolutely and deeply stupid. If you can tell Debian
> guys... ;-)
>


No problem, I'll forward your email to the bug. Anyway, as far as I
remember the problem is not in Debian but in
Trolltech-Nokia-Whatever_name_it_has_now : they have said they're not
going to provide any kind of support (even security support) to qt3,
so a distribution can not guarantee its safe shape.

Regards.
José L.


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