[OE-core] Future of Qt4 recipes

[Martin Jansa]

I agree with #2.

Argument that it's still used by many projects shouldn't be used against
layers :).

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 1:13 AM, akuster808 <akuster808 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On 06/22/2015 03:43 AM, Burton, Ross wrote:
>
>> 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?
>>
>
> #2 sounds fine.
>
> would recipes-lsb move out to its own layer too?
>
> - Armin
>
>>
>> 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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