Re: Future of Qt4 recipes

[akuster808 <akuster808@gmail.com>]

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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