To port or not to port?

[Robert Hogan <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I maintain two minor KDE-3.5 based apps: KlamAV and TorK.

KlamAV is firmly in bare maintenance mode. TorK is soon heading that way. (I 
want to spend my spare time coding new stuff.)

Am I right in thinking I don't *need* to port either app to KDE4; that both 
will, all things being equal, continue to run just fine on most distros, even 
when they migrate to KDE4? This is based on the assumption that most or all 
distros are going to maintan a 3.5 compatibility layer, um, of some sort.

So far as I can see most applications have used the porting process to 
completely renovate themselves or have been ported because they are a core 
part of KDE. The continued usability of the app doesn't appear to be a 
motivation.

Am I right? Or do I need to gird my loins for a month or two of fiddle-compile 
cycles?

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