Depend on Qt4.6 - Yay or Nay?

[Modestas Vainius]

Hello,

On šeštadienis 05 Birželis 2010 19:21:38 Myriam Schweingruber 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...

Current Debian stable (Lenny) barely had any packages required to build stable 
Amarok 2.x even at the time it was released. Lenny is KDE 3 based after all. 
As for KDE 4.5 dep, I would be rather disappointed if Amarok required the 
latest KDE SC (4.5) as soon as it got released.


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