Qt and KDE version bumping and next version numbering

[Mark Kretschmann]

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Myriam Schweingruber <myriam at kde.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 16:05, Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org> wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>
> Yes sorry, I mistyped that one.
>
> So if nobody opposes that move til the end of the week, I will change
> the README and ask markey to bump the version in cmake. I guess the
> silence is due to you all silently agreeing :)

In addition to that I would also inform our packagers as well (always
better with such dependency changes).

-- 
Mark Kretschmann
Amarok Developer
Fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe
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