KDE 4.4 Qt version

Tom Albers toma at kde.org
Tue Jan 12 20:33:15 GMT 2010


Op Tuesday 12 January 2010 21:28 schreef u:
> On Tuesday 12 January 2010, Tom Albers wrote:
> > Op Tuesday 12 January 2010 19:20 schreef u:
> > > > So yeah, I think requiring Qt 4.6.1 would be a good idea, imho.
> > >
> > > I agree, if we know that version x.y.z of package Foo makes our software
> > > crash, we should require a version != x.y.z of Foo.
> > > Even if that means to delay the release.
> > > What's a release worth if it crashes all the time...
> >
> > Yes, I agree too. Since it is runtime, can't we detect at runtime and print
> > a nice error message and refuse to start kde and the applications? Distro's
> > which do basic testing will catch and fix it for their users, users which
> > build themselves are warned that way too...
> 
> Why not even refuse to build with the bad version ?
> Is it a common use case to build against 4.6.0 and then run with a later 
> version ?

Yes, I think that happens here and there...

Toma
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