[mythtv] When will we deprecate Qt 5 and qmake/configure?

[Philipp Matthias Hahn]

Hello,

Am Tue, Aug 11, 2026 at 03:02:09PM +0100 schrieb Paul Harrison via mythtv-dev:
> On 11/08/2026 04:36, jam via mythtv-dev wrote:
> > I'm an auld fart with a serious if-it-aint-broke-don't-fixit attitude and a serious watch-and-learn philosophy.
> > cmake with some hand holdind from gemini turns out to be a very powerful tool !
> > EG I never bothered to learn about the daft python restrictions, but cmake delt with it cleanly
> > Resaying that with qmake I could not build and install mythtv, with cmake I could.
> > 
> > Because of that I started using cmake for my own projects eg using QT6, whisper.cpp on an iPad.
> > No doubt because of apple's insane (but actually clever) restrictions, cmake makes an awesome task easy.
> 
> Now that there is CMake support no one is saying it should be removed. I do
> question whether the time and effort was worth it. You can probably count
> the number of Windows users on one hand and the number of Android users who
> compile there own stuff on the other. I've said it before I would rather the
> time and effort was spend on bringing MythTV into the 2020's to make it more
> relevant for how most users consume there content these days.
> 
> 
> My concern is if configure is removed then that gives all the packagers a
> big headache.  Christian who maintains the Ubuntu distro and PPA builds has
> already said he doesn't want to use CMake so that should be the end of the
> discussion since almost three quarters of MythTV users use Ubuntu? It's a
> bit of a difficult situation since technically the packaging scripts are
> maintained by the MythTV project in the packaging repro that the PPA uses to
> build the packages for the  Mythbuntu PPA's. Exactly how that is going to
> pan out is anyone's guess!

I have already asked him the question, *why* he does not want to use
CMake:
- lack of time?
- need help?
- something else?
So far no answer.

Without an answer people like me might be unwilling to inverst their
time in converting the Debian/Ubuntu packagaging from auto* to CMake;
I'm a Debian Developer myself, have been using MythTH for may years by
now, already contributed patches to packaging/debian/ but would hate to
waste my time just because Christian likes to take MythTV as his
"hostage".

Philipp