qt4-mac vs. qt4-x11

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Sat Oct 23 12:43:42 PDT 2010


On Oct 23, 2010, at 11:36, Marko Käning wrote:

> just learnt that your port is aqua based and not using x11. :)
> 
> I understand that this is some native port for KDE. I guess it could offer more performance or better integration into the window manager. Where can I read more about this project? Cool that it doesn't conflict with qt4-x11! :)
> 
> Just trying my luck compiling the X11 version...
> 
> Wondering whether I can replace qt4-mac in kdelibs4 by qt4-x11…

qt4-x11 is a vastly outdated port, hasn't been touched in ages. Michael asked recently if anybody really needed it and I don't think anybody responded in the affirmative. I believe the plan is for qt4-mac to have an x11 variant (I see it currently does) and for qt4-x11 to be deleted.





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