From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pd0-f172.google.com (mail-pd0-f172.google.com [209.85.192.172]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15F3B759D0; Tue, 23 Jun 2015 23:13:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pdbki1 with SMTP id ki1so16731710pdb.1; Tue, 23 Jun 2015 16:13:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=VlSuu8r312h+so5zgSNYM577U1i7drVtEKwcqrSN/2U=; b=e3BN3olu4wMXOAEJMeKqPnWsJy67cRocam2pzlMP0ODPPLkTL7w8JurXwfh+YKbH5v eEXREtQEsYJW6eeHrim83Wak62NxhWmwWogeLupJ2h+zzOaS1kiuJnAK9ZalmdvDVnJR dyQ4iuLhOZ28I+55kFtzfQr8tO3uTKxUw+R6sDpo7HkyTeV91XukcpXMShPKM/pABZYO BAw14aIr2l5GZioCqtxBN0nnPLPiRvqsGlypYfsCxD3nHEOwMo64NZE/ckOV0RWwbeCS ds4+ECbVkJMKGYdnkyogCwCBkfCMNL0HHchA6tBqcCTvYhOUb7IxUWCLzTvDRVu+mRCQ 1Raw== X-Received: by 10.66.155.36 with SMTP id vt4mr75090966pab.32.1435101196777; Tue, 23 Jun 2015 16:13:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.43.100.29] (64.2.3.194.ptr.us.xo.net. [64.2.3.194]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id ks7sm24410076pbc.34.2015.06.23.16.13.14 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 23 Jun 2015 16:13:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5589E809.8060000@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 16:13:13 -0700 From: akuster808 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Burton, Ross" , OE-core , openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org References: In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [OE-core] Future of Qt4 recipes X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 23:13:16 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 > > From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pd0-f172.google.com (mail-pd0-f172.google.com [209.85.192.172]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15F3B759D0; Tue, 23 Jun 2015 23:13:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pdbki1 with SMTP id ki1so16731710pdb.1; Tue, 23 Jun 2015 16:13:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=VlSuu8r312h+so5zgSNYM577U1i7drVtEKwcqrSN/2U=; b=e3BN3olu4wMXOAEJMeKqPnWsJy67cRocam2pzlMP0ODPPLkTL7w8JurXwfh+YKbH5v eEXREtQEsYJW6eeHrim83Wak62NxhWmwWogeLupJ2h+zzOaS1kiuJnAK9ZalmdvDVnJR dyQ4iuLhOZ28I+55kFtzfQr8tO3uTKxUw+R6sDpo7HkyTeV91XukcpXMShPKM/pABZYO BAw14aIr2l5GZioCqtxBN0nnPLPiRvqsGlypYfsCxD3nHEOwMo64NZE/ckOV0RWwbeCS ds4+ECbVkJMKGYdnkyogCwCBkfCMNL0HHchA6tBqcCTvYhOUb7IxUWCLzTvDRVu+mRCQ 1Raw== X-Received: by 10.66.155.36 with SMTP id vt4mr75090966pab.32.1435101196777; Tue, 23 Jun 2015 16:13:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.43.100.29] (64.2.3.194.ptr.us.xo.net. [64.2.3.194]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id ks7sm24410076pbc.34.2015.06.23.16.13.14 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 23 Jun 2015 16:13:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5589E809.8060000@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 16:13:13 -0700 From: akuster808 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Burton, Ross" , OE-core , openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org References: In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: Future of Qt4 recipes X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 23:13:16 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 > >