KDE 4.4 Qt version

[John Tapsell]

2010/1/12 Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org>:
> Em Terça-feira 12. Janeiro 2010, às 09.09.12, John Tapsell escreveu:
>> 2010/1/12 Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org>:
>> > Em Terça-feira 12. Janeiro 2010, às 01.21.14, John Tapsell escreveu:
>> >> Hi all,
>> >>
>> >>   Does anyone know what version of Qt we will require for KDE 4.4?
>> >>
>> >>   I'd quite like to see 4.6.2 required, because in older versions a
>> >> lot of apps crash when they quit.  (See
>> >> http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-7105 )
>> >>
>> >>   This gives a pretty bad impression of KDE if apps randomly crash
>> >> everytime you close them or logout.
>> >
>> > KDE SC 4.4 will require Qt 4.6.
>> >
>> > The exact patch-level version is irrelevant. Distributions and everyone
>> > else should just use the latest available and pay attention to bugfixes
>> > in both Qt and in KDE software.
>>
>> How is it irrelevant if most kde apps crash with specific versions of Qt?
>
> It is. Bug fixes are bug fixes. KDE software requires features in Qt, not fixes.

There is precendence.  We blacklist known bad versions of gcc etc.
Likewise we should blacklist known bad versions of Qt.

>
>> "Oh here's a new release..  but you can't use it without everything
>> crashing when you logout.  But it's not our fault."
>> Wonderful.
>
> How about requiring Qt 4.6.3 then, because it will fix a bug that we haven't
> discovered yet?
>
> If there's something so grave that it crashes everything when you log out, you
> should make the point of having it in the next available release, not the one
> after that.

Well I agree on that!  I have posted a comment asking them to backport
to 4.6.1 but I don't think they will.

John