Qt 3.2 requirement

Stephan Kulow coolo at kde.org
Fri Jul 25 12:16:55 BST 2003


On Friday 25 July 2003 12:24, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 July 2003 21:31, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
> 
> > I would prefer, if we could keep compatibility with Qt 3.1 for as long
> > as possible, at least until it is part of the major distributions.
> > Requiring a developer to compile a new Qt in order to be able to test a
> > patch for any KDE application in the KDE CVS is, in my opinion, too
> > much. This will prevent some people from contributing to KDE and that's
> > clearly not what we want.
> 
> I second that.
I see this as very weak argument. Compiling kdelibs takes longer than Qt
and while kdelibs changes daily (possibly incompatible), we talk about a
one time Qt compilation. 
If Qt 3.2 is released and has less bugs than Qt 3.1.x, we should require it
as supporting two is a nightmare.

Greetings, Stephan




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