[OE-core] Future of Qt4 recipes

Otavio Salvador otavio at ossystems.com.br
Mon Jun 22 14:27:30 UTC 2015


I vote for 2 as well.
Em 22/06/2015 07:44, "Burton, Ross" <ross.burton at intel.com> escreveu:

> 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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