Am Donnerstag, 29. März 2012, 08:45:28 schrieb Sven Burmeister:
Am Mittwoch, 28. März 2012, 19:40:44 schrieb Bob Smits:
On March 28, 2012 08:07:32 am Ismail wrote:
please remove support for KDE3, for sanity sake please, its
unmaintained for years.
This is simply untrue.
No, the unmaintained part is true by simple logic. You are confusing packaged code with maintained code. It is impossible for one or even a few persons to maintain all of Qt3, KDE3 and KDE3 apps' code.
There were dozens if not hundreds of people doing that job before. Adding a few patches does not change anything – since you can only patch what you find and your patches can only be as good as your knowledge of the code. I wonder who would claim to know Qt3's code to the extend the devs at Trolltech/Nokia did. Same for KDE3's etc. Just because I can build a kernel and add a few patches I find, does not mean in any way that I provide a maintained kernel package.
So Qt3 etc. being unmaintained code-wise is a simple fact not related in any way to packages still building.
Sven
KDE 3 has finally into the archives! no more and no less, but at last out of the project! Many of the users understand the handle with kde 3 at no more opensuse project. KDE 3 was officially replaced by KDE 4, and that's good. The time of the once great desktops had expired. KDE 3 was removed from the distribution logically and set as the default for KDE 4 desktop. Well, some time later, they revised the whole back. Why? Suddenly one of the old junk back to distribution? Worse yet, it is also beginning to develop again ... even for 12.2? More and more packages appear once with prefix kde3 third Packets of a long detached desktops. Many KDE users is mostly known only too painfully, the corrections in some KDE 4 (eg P.I.M) are urgently needed. But why the same junk again last dig? No one would dream of digging up a dead horse in order to want to ride through the desert. Lack of anything bad, only that this old junk is still included in kde3 tumbleweed. KDE 3 is finally properly sorted out from 'official branch' and complete separated so that packager, developers and users do not trip over and over again about this "dead horse" KDE 3/Qt3. KDE 4 be with you, wherever you are … ;-) -- \__/ · … Grüße aus dem Ländle … /(0 0)\ · … openSUSE Member … (°_°) _________ \ )\ ||-----------vv| || || · … die "SuS(i)E" sei mit euch, wo immer ihr auch seid … · … wer die "SuS(i)E" nicht kennt, hats leben verpennt …