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[Scott Kitterman <ubuntu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Saucy will release with either Qt5 5.0 or 5.1 (FFe pending), but at least for 
Kubuntu, this is not an issue since we don't use Qt5 yet.  Adding an unofficial 
V8 port for powerpc is a bad idea for a number of reasons.  If anyone has Qt5 
code that really needs to run on powerpc for Saucy and it needs one of the 
missing Qt5 modules, you'll have to live without or backport the code to Qt4.  
I don't see V8 on powerpc happening for Saucy.

Scott K

On Sunday, September 01, 2013 11:50:46 Ho Wan Chan wrote:
> Hello Jackson,
> 
> You made my previous e-mail useless:P
> 
> It will be good if we can package it in for PowerPC users. Since very few
> of the developers have a PowerPC device, you would have to do it yourself
> probably.
> 
> Regards,
> Howard Chan (smartboyhw)
> Kubuntu Member
> 
> On 2013/9/1 上午11:45, "Jackson Doak" <noskcaj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Ignore the above emails, it seems that v8 is no longer needed as of 5.2
> > I will look into packaging that
> > 
> > On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Jackson Doak <noskcaj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Forwarded to kubuntu since it affects them too
> > > 
> > > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > > From: Jackson Doak <noskcaj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Date: Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 8:36 AM
> > > Subject: Qt on PowerPC
> > > To: Julien Lavergne <gilir@xxxxxxxxxx>,
> > > "lubuntu-qa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lubuntu-qa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> > > Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Currently most of Qt fails to build in ubuntu on powerpc. This is a
> > > huge bug for us since LXDE is rather dependant on Qt.
> > > 
> > > The build issues can all be traced back to the javascript backend for
> > > Qt requiring google's v8 engine to work. The build log is at
> > 
> > https://launchpadlibrarian.net/147271709/buildlog_ubuntu-saucy-powerpc.qtj
> > sbackend-opensource-src_5.0.2-3_FAILEDTOBUILD.txt.gz> 
> > > . v8 is also used by chrome and chromium as a backend.
> > > 
> > > The FTBFS list is at http://qa.ubuntuwire.org/ftbfs/
> > > 
> > > One possible solution is using the un-official v8 port. The old
> > > version is at https://github.com/ic/v8-powerpc and the new version at
> > > https://github.com/andrewlow/v8ppc .
> > > 
> > > To-Do list (in no particular order):
> > > 1. Investigate which packages don't actually need the js backend and
> > > try to force them to build
> > > 2. Get julien to comment on this because he knows more than i do
> > > 3. Test both of the v8 git versions, see if either work well enough
> > > for us to use.
> > > 4. package the v8 git version we choose to use and patch the other
> > > code to be able to use it.
> > > 5. Contact the developers of the git versions for their help.
> > > 
> > > It would be great if we could have this working by 14.04
> > > 
> > > Jackson
> > 
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