QtQuick 1.0 vs 1.1

[Martin Gräßlin]

On Monday 14 November 2011 22:00:32 Marco Martin wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I just seen a little problem in the series of components we have and the way
> we use qml...
> for some things, QtQuick 1.1 is required, especially for
> implicitWidth/implicitHeight (poor brother of size hints, but makes things
> way better already)
> and LayoutMirroring, to decently support rtl layouts.
> 
> now, seems the import qtquick 1.1 was introduced only in Qt 4.7.4, making
> effectively a feature upgrade in a Qt bugfix release (bad precedent to say
> the least)
> 
> so now for releasing components in kde 4.8 we should either depend from qt
> 4.7.4, that is quite nasty because it never happened or actually downgrade
> everywhere in the components the use of qtquick 1.1 to 1.0.
> 
> i have a giant patch here that does just that, doesn't seem to cause many
> problems, everything will just be slightly more buggy until that will be
> reverted as soon as we can depend from Qt 4.8
> 
> so, what of the two poisons? ;)
I am more for dependency on 4.7.4, but it has to be clarified with the release 
team and probably packagers. Till 4.8 is released all distros should ship it 
and all packaging systems should support it. So it's hopefully just a >= 4.7.4 
instead of >=4.7.0

Cheers
Martin
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