Re: Seeking Qt port maintainer or Qt removal

Roland Mainz <[email protected]> Wed, 04 Sep 2002 17:50:49 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.unix,gmane.comp.mozilla.builds
Organization Another Netscape Collabra Server User
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Christopher Seawood wrote:

> So, the Qt port (as in TrollTech's Qt, not QuickTime) of Mozilla has
> been busted since before moz0.9.9 was release (6+ months ago).  A quick
> search through bugzilla shows that there are at least 2 patches that
> should get Qt compiling again (but no guarantees of correctness).  As
> we've gone through periods before when the port has been busted for
> months at a time, I'm looking for someone to step up and maintain the Qt
> port.  Otherwise, I'm recommending that we remove it.  I'd like to avoid
> going through the 20 months of adding stub functions for global API
> changes that we went through with Motif before we finally decided to
> remove it from the tree.

There aren't much changes required to get the Qt port working again,
there are only two major changes which are easy to fix (if someone has
Qt installed).
Is there a BugZilla-bug like "Seeking new owner for the Qt-port" yet ?

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Bye,
Roland

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