[Gambas-devel] Removal of gambas2 from Debian

Stephen Bungay sbungay at ...642...
Wed Mar 9 22:13:20 CET 2011


On 03/08/2011 02:16 PM, José Luis Redrejo Rodríguez wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>> Regards,
>>
>> --
>> Benoît Minisini
>>
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Agree with Benoit.




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