KDE 4.4 Qt version

Alexander Neundorf neundorf at kde.org
Wed Jan 13 17:56:12 GMT 2010


On Tuesday 12 January 2010, Matt Rogers wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 January 2010 14:33:15 Tom Albers wrote:
> > 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
>
> I do that all the time, since I tend to follow the 4.6 branch in git.

And that branch has also version 4.6.0 ?

Alex





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