Re: Kconfig Gtk/Qt interface flavours ported to newest toolkit versions

Sam Ravnborg
2013-07-11T20:56:50Z

>
> I did not do any review of the patches, since I have a concern about the
> series. It happens very often that, in enterprise ecosystems, the host
> build machines are running rather aging distro, such as RHEL 5 (or even
> RHEL 4 in some cases), so I think we still want the new kernels to be
> buildable (and thus configurable) on such machines (eg. for
> cross-compilation).
>
> I have no idea when such enterprise distros have started bundling GTK3
> or Qt4/5, but given RHEL-4 (which is still use in some places) is 8
> years old, I doubt the new frontends would build on those distros.

IMO users restricted to these systems - if required to look at / modify the kernel
configuration can use one of the other frontends.
In other words - I do not think we shall stick to the old gtk / qt versions due to this.

> > I do not know if it was on purpose to keep all flavours except lxdialog in one single directory,
>
> Historical artifact, I think... :-(
lxdialog was one a separate binary - later we did a very rough conversion
so it is now a single binary. But there are many left-overs from when it was
separated.

Sam