[lsb-discuss] Qt issues: deprecating Qt 3, use of qmake, proposed database changes

[Till Kamppeter]

I totally agree with these, especially with (a). 6 years are enough for 
all Qt3 apps to disappear. 6 years are ages in IT.

    Till

Robert Schweikert wrote:
> I vote for deprecating Qt 3 for LSB 3.2 for the following reasons:
> 
> a.) 6 years should be sufficient for people to move their apps from Qt3 
> to Qt 4
> b.) we shouldn't force distributions to schlep old stuff longer than 
> absolutely necessary
> c.) Trolltech is already washing their hands of Qt3
> d.) we should not support two versions of the "same" module/package in 
> the LSB
> e.) it makes our test coverage look much better (ha ha)