Re: To port or not to port?

[Albert Astals Cid <aacid@xxxxxxx>]

A Dissabte 19 Gener 2008, Robert Hogan va escriure:
> 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?

Sometime, somewhen distros will probably stop shipping kde3 and qt3 libraries 
as they did with gtk1, but that's probably quite time in the future.

Albert

 
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