[Qt] Packaging of qt4-lib for FPC/Laz developers

[Mazen Neifer]

Matthias,

The proper solution will be to move it to FPC repository and package it
in fp-units-qt4 just like fp-units-gtk2, no?

Does anyone complain about this?

Mazen,

Le jeudi 28 mai 2009 à 14:58 +0200, Matthias Klumpp a écrit :
> Hi Mazen!
> The necessary headers for Qt4 are already included in Lazarus.
> The library I packaged is some kind of a Qt4 wrapper which makes the C++ Qt
> functions usable for Lazarus/Pascal.
> Every application which uses Qt4 and which is produced with Lazarus/Pascal
> depends on this package. It is no proper solution if everyone has to
> include the library into his/her own package which needs reconfiguring of
> the library paths and may make it impossible to install another package
> which also contains the libqt4intf.so. Because of that it would be nice if
> the library is in the repositories of the Linux distributions.
> (As Vincent already explained)
> 
>     Matthias
> 
> On Thu, 28 May 2009 10:21:54 +0200, Mazen Neifer <mazen at freepascal.org>
> wrote:
> > Hi Matthias,
> > 
> > I think there is already a port of QT binding in Lazarus. I've located
> > the file lazrus/lcl/interfaces/qt/qt44.pas which seems to provide an
> > interface for qtlib.
> > 
> > In order to save effort, I propose to collaborate together with the
> > maintainer of this file and put this in fpc/packages/qt.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Mazen,
> > 
> > Le mercredi 27 mai 2009 à 22:11 +0200, Matthias Klumpp a écrit :
> >> Hello!
> >> My name is Matthias Klumpp, I'm developer for various Linux applications
> >> which are made using FPC and Lazarus. I'm als very active in building
> new
> >> Debian packages for Ubuntu, especially the GetDeb-Portal.
> >> Some members of the German Lazarus forum asked me a long time ago if I
> >> could package the libqt4intf.so library (
> >> http://users.telenet.be/Jan.Van.hijfte/qtforfpc/fpcqt4.html ) for
> >> Debian/Ubuntu to make it easier to create Lazarus for Qt4.
> >> Because I'm not an Ubuntu/Debian maintainer yet, I submitted the package
> >> sources to REVU and my PPA.
> >> The package is now waiting for a long time to be included into Ubuntu.
> >> Yesterday I got an mail from a Lazarus-Forum meber, who asked me about
> >> the
> >> packaging progress and who made the suggestion to partner with you to
> get
> >> the package into Debian, because you're responsible for the Lazarus/FPC
> >> packages in Debian.
> >> Would it be possible to include my libqt4intf-package into Debian
> >> unstable?
> >> Otherwise I have to wait for at least two MOTUs to review my package.
> >> This
> >> may take nearly three months. The complete sources of the package are
> >> available at REVU: http://revu.ubuntuwire.com/p/libqtintf4
> >> All lintian errors/warnings are fixed, proper patchfiles are included
> and
> >> everything is working fine on Ubuntu.
> >> It would be great if you could include this library to make it possible
> >> for
> >> other Pascal developers to build their applications with Qt4.
> >> Because my package completely depends on MOTUs who have enough time to
> >> review it, I'm not sure if the library would reach Ubuntu's universe
> >> repos
> >> for the next release.
> >> I'm looking forward to hear from you!
> >> Best regards,
> >>     Matthias Klumpp
> >>
>