On Saturday 17 September 2011 04:17:59 Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > > It would be possible, but being honest Qt3 and KDE3 are the past. > > > > I think for openSUSE at least this is not exactly the case because I think > > KDE3 will be back in the upcoming release after a gap of 4 releases. > > Trolltech/Nokia declared Qt3 dead and it has known bugs and security issues
Trinity project picked up qt3 and included it in their SVN. They already made two minor releases. > and noone is developing KDE3 either which probably has known security issues > too. I am sure that if openSUSE is willing to maintain releases of all that > they can also do the same for poppler-qt > > > If you want to keep using them, that is fine, but for upstream projects > > > maitaining a Qt3 backend when noone is interested in doing so is a pain, > > > so it is not going to happen. > > > > > > Of course you are free to get the old code and compile it against the > > > new > > > poppler, it should not be that difficult. > > > > Can you please check if it builds well against 0.18 without much effort? > > If may you simply include it into the package or as a separate tarball? > > No, you want it, you do it. Can you please tell how to build poppler-qt separately of poppler? > > Actually I am not sure how I can extract poppler-qt3 from an existing > > package and build it agains poppler from another package... And also > > probably the distro will not accept a package which is hacked rather than > > comes from the devs. > > That is your problem, not ours, we do not have the capacity to maintain > useless code around. Why useless if many people use it? _______________________________________________ poppler mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler
