RFC: Bumping min. KDE Platform version to 4.6.0

[Inge Wallin]

On Sunday, January 27, 2013 17:28:11 Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> while I was working on sheets/plugins/calendar/CalendarTool.cpp to fix the
> code for the "deprecated!" warnings in there I wondered why we still depend
> on KDE 4.3 as minimum platform, especially now that the min. required Qt
> version has been bumped to Qt 4.7
> 
> Questions:
> * is anybody known to rely on a KDE Platform <4.6?
> * is known if the KDE Platform <4.6 works okayish with Qt 4.7?

I am using KDE 4.5.2.  I have built my own Qt 4.8.

And yes, it works quite well.

	-Inge


> Some background data:
> KDE Platform 4.3.0 was released on August 4th, 2009
> Qt 4.7.0 was released on September 21th, 2010
> KDE Platform 4.6.0 was released on January 26th, 2011 (min. Qt 4.7.2
> recommended), so 2 years ago.
> 
> Why would I prefer a bump of the min. kde platform to 4.6.0:
> * There are around 50 places all over Calligra's code with KDE_IS_VERSION
> which could be removed then.
> * kdelibs 4.3 was still young and more buggy, so 4.6 should be more
> reliable * combination of kdelibs 4.3 and Qt 4.7 might be not very common,
> is untested if things work properly
> * And it would save me from having to add more then 10
> KDE_IS_VERSION(4.6.0) to sheets/plugins/calendar/CalendarTool.cpp :)
> 
> So, anyone objecting a bump of the min KDE Platform version to 4.6.0?
> Other comments?
> 
> Cheers
> Friedrich
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