Qt and KDE version bumping and next version numbering

[Mark Kretschmann]

On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Myriam Schweingruber <myriam at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> since we are starting a new version, there are a few things we should consider:
>
> currently we still depend on KDE 4.3 and Qt 4.4. Since  KDE 4.5.1 is
> already is out and Qt 4.7.0 is imminent, also all distributions
> already ship KDE 4.4 and Qt 4.5 AFAIK., we should be able to bump to
> the next version, that is KDE 4.4 and Qt 4.5.
>
> This would also allow us to integrate this merge request:
>
> http://gitorious.org/amarok/amarok/merge_requests/121: Replaced
> deprecated animations API from Context plasmoids
>
> Also, since we will bring in the GSoC students code now, we should
> consider bumping to Amarok 2.4 as our next target, there will be
> enough new features that would justify such a version change.
>
> What do the others think?

That would be very welcome by me, especially because we could then
make use of the utterly delightful QWeakPointer class from Qt 4.6.

With that available, there is no excuse any more for producing
dangling pointers :)

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Mark Kretschmann
Amarok Developer
Fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe
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