[Development] When to remove old platform plugins?

Johannes Zellner johannes.zellner at nokia.com
Wed Mar 14 11:57:50 CET 2012


On 03/14/2012 09:05 AM, ext eike.ziller at nokia.com wrote:
> On 12 Mar 2012, at 14:14, ext morten.sorvig at nokia.com wrote:
>
>> On Mar 12, 2012, at 1:25 PM, ext Johannes Zellner wrote:
>>
>>> On 03/08/2012 09:21 PM, ext Holger Hans Peter Freyther wrote:
>>>> uikit:
>>>> There was no development of the plugin in Qt5.
>>> Is anybode using them on Qt5? or even tried to use them?
>> I believe uikit may be revived for Qt5, please hold off on removing it for now.
> What is currently there doesn't work at all with Qt5, and it even was not updated with any changes that were made in the Qt 4.8 version (as few as they were).
> And the corresponding mkspecs have been removed as well.
>
> So the best choice for anyone reviving the uikit plugin for Qt5 is to take the 4.8 version as a reference for the new implementation anyhow.
> Please remove the uikit platform plugin from Qt5, not to give anyone false impressions.
>
I will prepare a change to remove it...if someone steps up, we can 
always integrate again as soon as it works.



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