[OE-core] Future of Qt4 recipes

[Burton, Ross]

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
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