KDE Trunk based on Qt 4.6

[Sune Vuorela]

On 2009-08-30, Tom Albers <toma at kde.org> wrote:
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> Op Sunday 30 August 2009 23:27 schreef u:
>> On 8/30/09, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
>> > A Diumenge, 30 d'agost de 2009, Tom Albers va escriure:
>> >> Op Sunday 30 August 2009 15:15 schreef u:
>> >> > Qt 4.6 will be released end of this year [...]. So should we based the
>> >> > trunk on top of 4.6 for KDE 4.4?
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>> >> My humble opinion is that if Qt 4.6 is released before KDE 4.4 Beta 1, we
>> >> can depend on it. If not released before November 11th, we can not test it
>> >> properly and can not depend on it.
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>> > I'm with Tom here, don't depend on something you can not test, that's rule
>> > number one of the software development, and 4.6 does not exist so we can't
>> > test it.
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>> problem is that distributions will ship KDE4.4 with Qt 4.6 anyways, so
>> any problem that can be it will be there anyways, not depending on 4.6
>> just denies features
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> I'm sure we can make a cmake check which will give a big fat warning to distro's to not do that. 

Which distros will ignore.  Qt is not only used by KDE, and Qt is
expected to keep compability and no behaviour changes.

/Sune