RFC: Bumping min. KDE Platform version to 4.6.0

[C. Boemann]

On Tuesday 29 January 2013 10:49:44 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> On 28.01.2013 20:19, Inge Wallin wrote:
> > Regarding the main question... I'm not against the upping of the required
> > KDE version per se.  But I'm a little worried about the general notion
> > that you need a late version of the OS to run a late version of an
> > application.  MS has been so very successful partly because they
> > acknowledge that people in reality are running old versions.
> 
> Yes, but Microsoft also regularly gets into a whole lot of trouble
> because of that, and it costs them tremendous amounts of resources to
> support that much legacy stuff. Resources the KDE community doesn't
> necessarily have.
> 
> > Many people, hackers especially, upgrade all the time. But many people
> > who just want to use their computers and not fiddle with them do not.
> 
> What may make sense is looking at the oldest versions of major distros
> which are still supported (my guess is that you can't get older then
> Debian, though ;) ) and try not to bump the minimum required KDE
> Platform and Qt versions higher than the ones they use.
that would be 4.4 then..

> If a
> distribution isn't officially supported anymore, Calligra doesn't need
> to support it either.
> 
> This would be a very conservative approach, though. I guess it's rather
> unlikely that people running Debian Stable or Ubuntu LTS would wont to
> run current Calligra but not current KDE.
correct and not to speak of that said user wold have to run a newer Qt as 
well, which makes it even less likely.

So yes in this case I think we can upgrade the requirements (maybe give Inge a 
a week or two)