[ITP] Qt4

Yaakov (Cygwin/X) yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net
Fri Dec 25 03:55:00 GMT 2009


The Qt3 packages are currently mine, but most Qt/KDE packages have moved 
on to the Qt4 series already.  While I've had this in Ports for a while, 
the extra dependencies of some of the components have held those 
releases back from inclusion in the distro.  Instead of delaying this 
any further, I decided to make a separate release for the distro without 
those particular features for now.

The major difference is that I disabled Phonon support.  Phonon is a 
multimedia abstraction layer which uses various platform-dependent 
backends to do the real work (one or more of GStreamer, Xine, VLC, and 
MPlayer on *NIX).  Phonon is primarily used by KDE4; very few Qt4-only 
apps use it.  It is also used for HTML5 audio/video rendering within 
QtWebKit, but that is still uncommon.  GStreamer is used by GNOME as 
well, so one day we will want to add this, but we're talking about at 
least a dozen ITPs.

Testers, be warned: it's HUGE.  I've broken it up the binary packages 
into 38 components so an ordinary installation will be reasonable, but 
the source tarball is 120MB and you'll need about 3GB in order to 
unpack, rebuild, install, and repackage the whole thing.

Of course, all the distros have it already, GPL/LGPL/QPL, yada yada.

Now that I've scared everybody off from testing it, here it is:

http://mirrors.kernel.org/sources.redhat.com/cygwinports/uploads/qt4/


Yaakov
Cygwin/X



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