Qt and KDE version bumping and next version numbering

[Leo Franchi]

On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 7:43 AM, Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org> 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.
>
> With that available, there is no excuse any more for producing
> dangling pointers :)

+1 from me. As we've had no complains, I think we should just go ahead
and make trunk 4.6-friendly.

leo



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