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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: RFC: remove qt-copy
From:       Benjamin Meyer <ben () meyerhome ! net>
Date:       2009-05-26 21:03:40
Message-ID: 87FC9125-3CAB-4F7F-96BA-3A4599D86527 () meyerhome ! net
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> oh. and btw, I have at several times discussed Qt-copy patches with
> people from Trolltech/QtSw, and they often wasn't very impressed by
> some of the patches and urged me to not ship them.

In the past some of the patches that were put into qt-copy didn't  
follow any of the qt-copy guidelines and they have even broken binary  
compatibility.  I can only guess that they were dumped there because  
getting them into Qt wasn't exactly quick or easy.  And I was very  
surprised that distros would pick from it when I realized several  
years ago my distro had a bug that wasn't in the Qt release.  With the  
open Qt repo things should be better.  You can run your patches  
against the existing autotests and there is a much more clear cut path  
for what needs to get done and how to submit patches and a way for  
trolltech to accept and reject patches.  I would even go so far as to  
say that no patch should be allowed in kde's Qt repo unless it has  
been submitted to be merged.

-Benjamin Meyer
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