Re: KDE4/Qt4 removal from openSUSE Factory

Am Freitag, 29. März 2019, 10:50:42 schrieb Carlos E. R.:
> [useless rant] IMHO, something is wrong in library design if going from
> one version to the next is that difficult.

As Luca wrote already, it's actually often relatively easy to port 
applications from Qt4 to Qt5 or kdelibs4 to KDE Frameworks5 (unless they still 
use Qt3 compatibility stuff that got removed in Qt5).

But Amarok is a huge project, and too few people are actively working on it 
(as usual...).
The main technical difficulties (AFAIK) were porting the context view (which 
used Plasma, and got rewritten from scratch using QtQuick/QML directly), and 
the scripting engine (which used QtScript that is still available but 
deprecated in Qt5).

Anyway, as always, ranting/complaining/critizing doesn't help much.
More people would need to step up and actually do some work... (I'm not 
addressing you or anybody in particular here, it's just a general statement)

Kind Regards,
Wolfgang

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