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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Qt versus threading
From:       Michael Brade <Michael.Brade () informatik ! uni-muenchen ! de>
Date:       2001-09-07 17:39:32
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On Friday 07 September 2001 15:56, Christoph Cullmann wrote:
> Rik Hemsley wrote:
> > #if Alex Zepeda
> >
> > > Yes, sort-of.  With any -RELEASE or -STABLE (as of now) version of
> > > FreeBSD, I don't think the threading stuff works (as) well, and I'm not
> > > sure how actively it's being developed.  With -curent however, I have
> > > noticed a bunch of bug fixes in the past few months or so.  When I
> > > finally get kdelibs+base built I'll see if anything works *here*.
> >
> > I think it's quite important that we can get FreeBSD's thread support
> > working with KDE and Qt, otherwise FreeBSD will be the only platform
> > where it doesn't work and we will be stuck in a position where we
> > either ban QThread for the lifetime of KDE 3 (argh ! not again !)
>
> Arg is the right word :(
Yup :(

> > or drop FreeBSD support.
>
> Would be bad, too :(
Well, but regarding how long KDE 3.x will exist (much longer than 14 months) 
it makes no sense to drop multithreading in favor of FreeBSD. So I'd say drop 
FreeBSD support until they release -current and then add it back to KDE 3.x's 
list of supported systems.

Ciao,
  Michael

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