KDE Trunk based on Qt 4.6

[Tom Albers]

Op Sunday 30 August 2009 23:52 schreef u:
> 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?
> >> >>
> >> >> 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.
> >> >
> >> > 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.
> >> 
> >> 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
> >
> > 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

Thanks. Just gave a whole new look on Debian. 
I naively thought they would take KDE serious and would not ignore such a warning.

So, that means we can only reach one conclusion: this discussion is void, depend on qt4.6, there is no other option.

Toma
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