From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: Staying on top of Qt security Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2016 22:16:05 +0100 Message-ID: <87d1r8aane.fsf@mdc-berlin.de> References: <20160214200143.GA19744@jasmine> <20160225083545.GA21159@solar> <20160225090430.GA21236@solar> <20160225090642.GA21644@solar> <20160305114124.GA23846@solar> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48783) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1acJYg-0002vZ-3B for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2016 16:16:18 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1acJYc-000197-MJ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2016 16:16:18 -0500 Received: from pegasus.bbbm.mdc-berlin.de ([141.80.25.20]:54068) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1acJYc-00016g-D1 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2016 16:16:14 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20160305114124.GA23846@solar> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Andreas Enge Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Andreas Enge writes: > On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 10:06:42AM +0100, Andreas Enge wrote: >> Probably we can: >> "jalv.qt (...) This is a versionm of Jalv with a GUI implemented in Qt= . >> It is mainly for developer testing purposes, for a production ready pr= ogram >> use jalv.gtk." > > Qt-4 support dropped in commit 03d55ee. > > This does not have much impact, however, since there is still a depende= ncy > on suil, which depends on qt-4. > > So the question still stands: > On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 09:22:29PM +0100, Andreas Enge wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 10:38:32AM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: >> > We cannot know what toolkit the GUI of audio plugins will use. Suil >> > supports the three most popular ones so plugin authors providing GUI= s >> > don=E2=80=99t need to worry about support in popular hosts such as A= rdour. >> So you would keep the dependency on qt? What is annoying is that right= now, >> this must be qt-4. The library had its last release in August 2014, bu= t >> I see the following svn commit: >> r5725 | drobilla | 2015-09-12 18:02:02 +0200 (Sa, 12 Sep 2015) | 1 lin= e >> Add Gtk2 and X11 in Qt5 wrappers. >> >> Should we try to package an svn checkout? And convince the author to m= ake >> a new release? We could ask drobilla for a new suil release. I don=E2=80=99t think we s= hould package the development version as it=E2=80=99s not clear if dependent applications would work with the latest suil. ~~ Ricardo