> On 16 Mar 2016, at 07:09, Thiago Macieira <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I'd like to turn off the automatic detection in the Unix configure for Qt
> 5.6.
> This will solve the problem of the failure to compile (with a hammer).
sure
> Holger: do you know any more details about the project? Is it dead? Is there
> an active fork of it anywhere? Even archives of past releases?
the FOSS development of DirectFB seems to be dead but I don't know the details
or reasons. I think it is unlikely that (git.)directfb.org will be back online
and the code on github is also only an old version of it.
> If there's no action to revive the project, we should declare it deprecated
> in
> Qt 5.7, with the note that we aren't testing at all, not even to see if it
> compiles, and later remove in Qt 5.8.
I was wondering what it means for the Qt project. The reality (at least two
years ago) in the Set-Top-Box market was that the SoC vendors would (heavily)
modify DirectFB and ship it to their customers. Given their general lack of
upstream involvement I would be surprised if they drop DirectFB just because
directfb.org and the development behind it is dead.
But your approach seems fine, deprecate it in 5.7 (and print a big warning on
configure?) and see if any of the users are willing to invest in the
maintenance.
kind regards
holger
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