Re: [gentoo-dev] Qt3 deprecation

[Doug Goldstein <cardoe@gentoo.org>]

On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Ben de Groot<yngwin@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Dear fellow devs,
>
> We would like to draw your attention to the fact that the Gentoo Qt team
> now officially discourages further usage of Qt3. Version 3 is no longer
> being developed or supported upstream. All users are strongly encouraged
> to use Qt version 4 where applicable.
>
> This means that we request that no new Qt3-based packages will be
> introduced to the portage tree. Also, where there is a choice, Qt4
> should be preferred over Qt3 by default.
>
> We will still do some minimal maintenance and support on the existing
> Qt3 libs and applications for about another 6 months. This will give
> application maintainers the time to upgrade or look for alternatives.
> After this period we will move the Qt3 libs and apps along with KDE3
> into an overlay where users of those legacy packages can maintain them.
>
> If you have a package for which both Qt3 and Qt4 versions exist, please
> have the Qt4-based version marked stable (if it isn't already) within
> the next few months and remove the legacy Qt3-based version, if possible.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ben de Groot
> Gentoo Qt team lead
>
>

MythTV still uses Qt3 and there is NO way that the Qt4 based MythTV
could even remotely be considered stable. It is still undergoing
constantly changing and there are many codepaths that are incomplete.

-- 
Doug Goldstein