KDE TRUNK & Qt-4.4.x (pre-release in qt-copy)

[Thiago Macieira]

James Richard Tyrer wrote:
>I understand that KDE TRUNK now requires Qt >= 4.4.0 although I didn't
>see an actual announcement to that effect on the list.

Yep, we forgot to post the announcement. I thought I had corrected the 
Techbase webpage, but I couldn't find any trace of my edits today. So I 
made them again.

>However, I find that:
>
>	The CMake scripts do not check for this.

I don't think we used to check for 4.3 either.

>	The README files do not say that 4.4 is required and where to
>	get it.

You mean the README file that says "This is version 4.0 of the KDE 
libraries." ?

Yeah, one more thing to add to the To-Do list for before 4.1.

>This has resulted in totally unnecessary bug reports (and duplicates)
>and will probably result in more.
>
>This should be fixed ASAP.  Actually, it should have been fixed before
>any code dependent on Qt-4.4.x was committed.
>
>This is unprofessional quality management.

Sorry, we forgot. I'm a lot more worried about getting the Qt 4.4 bugs 
fixed, so we rushed into getting the snapshot into place so that more 
people would test it.

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