qt4-mac and qt4-x11

[Joshua Root]

On 2012-11-23 02:25 , Rainer Müller wrote:
> Hello Michael,
> 
> I just noticed that qt4-x11 is no longer maintained and is already a few
> versions behind of qt4-mac:
> 
>   qt4-mac @4.8.3_1
>   qt4-x11 @4.4.3_9
> 
> Are there plans to support qt4-x11 longer? Some ports still depend on
> qt4-x11 in some variants, however, no port depends on qt4-x11 in the
> default variants selection.
> 
> Could you please take a look to update qt4-x11 to a newer version and
> make it more similar to qt4-mac?
> 
> Otherwise, if there is absolutely no interest in qt4-x11 anymore, I
> would suggest to get rid of this outdated port and rename qt4-mac to qt4.

It looks like they stopped releasing separate source tarballs after
4.5.3. It would make sense to combine the ports (or delete qt4-x11 if
nobody wants it).

There is a commented-out x11 variant in qt4-mac. That doesn't really
make sense given that the "-mac" part of the name refers to it using the
native GUI. I agree that the combined port should be called qt4.

If the libs installed with +x11 would be completely API and ABI
compatible with those installed by qt4-mac now, then variants would be
fine. If not, qt4-x11 would need to be a subport.

- Josh