Qt and KDE version bumping and next version numbering

[Mark Kretschmann]

On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Jeff Mitchell <mitchell at kde.org> wrote:
> On 09/19/2010 07:43 AM, Mark Kretschmann wrote:
>> 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.
>
> No we couldn't -- Myriam proposed bumping to Qt 4.5, not 4.6.

Ah, Myriam got a bit confused there, I just talked to her. KDE 4.4
actually depends on Qt 4.6 (not 4.5, which we already depend on).

So all is good, if we start depending on KDE 4.4.

-- 
Mark Kretschmann
Amarok Developer
Fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe
http://amarok.kde.org - http://www.fsfe.org