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Was killing Qt4 support necessary? #1

Closed barracuda156 closed 1 year ago

barracuda156 commented 1 year ago

The commit removing Qt4 support https://github.com/quazaa-development-team/Quazaa/commit/95eb80d7029bb65daa0178cdaa0c85904bf30067 reverts cleanly, so apparently nothing has been changed since then. What was the point to remove it?

josephcrowell commented 1 year ago

IIRC it was for performance and staying up to date with actively developed and supported libraries. The project has been dead for 11 years and this commit is older than that though. Feel free to fork and continue development if you want an application for a dead (and unencrypted) P2P network that no one uses any more.

barracuda156 commented 1 year ago

Thank you for responding.

gtk-gnutella is broken, I could not trace the bug so far, so looked for a replacement app :)

barracuda156 commented 1 year ago

BTW, what happened to this branch? https://github.com/quazaa-development-team/Quazaa/commits/HostCache Apparently did not get merged into master, despite having quite a number of newer commits.

josephcrowell commented 1 year ago

https://shareaza.sourceforge.net/

josephcrowell commented 1 year ago

We stopped development on Quazaa around the time that Limewire got sued. It never transferred a file.

barracuda156 commented 1 year ago

We stopped development on Quazaa around the time that Limewire got sued. It never transferred a file.

Oh wow. Got it. Limewire was a nice app.

P. S. Shareaza is Windows-only, if I don’t mistake. You seem to have been the only Unix alternative.

josephcrowell commented 1 year ago

Shareaza runs well in Wine.

barracuda156 commented 1 year ago

Shareaza runs well in Wine.

And Wine is x86-only 😐

P. S. In fact it’s a bit surprising that Shareaza wasn’t ported or an alternative didn’t emerge, but what can we do.

josephcrowell commented 1 year ago

I was a member of the Shareaza team and this was the port. Unfortunately the network died due to poisoning from the RIAA and also continual legal attacks. Plus better alternatives emerged such as torrents. In the end, yes: What can we do.