Depend on Qt4.6 - Yay or Nay?

Maximilian Kossick maximilian.kossick at googlemail.com
Sat Jun 5 18:43:19 CEST 2010


On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Myriam Schweingruber
<schweingruber at pharma-traduction.ch> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 17:54, Casey Link <unnamedrambler at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hey devs,
>>
>> It's been 4 days of virtual silence regarding this issue...
>>
>> Before reverting Ralf's commit that is currently failing our
>> continuous integration server, or installing the little hack Thomas
>> suggested, lets come to a consensus for Qt 4.6.
>>
>> From the extreme lack of "I can't build!" complaints (I've seen one,
>> and he wasn't a developer), we all obviously have Qt 4.6 installed and
>> so do most of our git users. (or of course no one but me has built
>> Amarok in 4 days).
>
> We can switch as soon as KDE 4.5 is release. This is our usual way of
> changing Qt versions. As long a not all distros ship KDE SC 4.4.x,
> there is no possibility to switch. Keep in mind that Debian stable
> doesn't without activating additional repositories...
>
> We really shouldn't take the git users using a higher Qt version as a
> measure, these are only a tiny fraction of all users we have.
>
>
> Regards, Myriam.

I agree with Miriam.

Cheers, Max


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