[Development] Deprecating BlackBerry Playbook support

[Vladimir Minenko]

+1

This was in discussion for a while anyway...

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On 09/02/15 08:19, Knoll Lars wrote:
> No objections from my side. Unless someone else raises a very good
> argument (I can’t see what that would be) within the next 48 hours, please
> go ahead.
>
> Cheers,
> Lars
>
> On 06/02/15 16:55, "Rafael Roquetto" <rafael.roquetto at kdab.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Unless anyone is willing to help, I would like to propose deprecating and
>> consequently removing BlackBerry Playbook code from Qt sources.
>> This would mainly affect the QNX plugin.
>>
>> Reasons:
>>     - the Playbook NDK is old and its compiler does not keep up with
>> newest
>>       C++11 improvements inside Qt Code.
>>     - the Playbook NDK diverges considerably from the standard BB10 NDK,
>>       making it non-trivial to keep a common codebase.
>>     - It's a defunct platform.
>>     - Maintenance time is limited.
>>
>> If anyone objects, please raise your hands.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Rafael
>>
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