hard-dep for Qt 4.8

David Jarvie djarvie at kde.org
Fri Jan 13 09:18:46 GMT 2012


On Fri, January 13, 2012 9:10 am, Mark wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Thomas Zander <zander at kde.org> wrote:
>
>> torsdagen den 12 januari 2012 22.50.24 skrev  Ingo Klöcker:
>> > If you want developers to switch to Qt 4.8 to get the KDE code better
>> > tested with this version of Qt then simply ask developers to do so. I
>> > see no good reason to force developers to do so.
>>
>> +1
>>
>> --
>> Thomas Zander
>>
>
> +1 for putting a hard dep on it.
> Reason: my distribution already has Qt 4.8 (Archlinux) and Qt doesn't
> release new versions for nothing. It's new, generally better, thus should
> be used.

And you are welcome to use it - no-one is suggesting that people shouldn't
use Qt 4.8 if they choose to do so. However, this is not the issue - the
issue is whether they should be _forced_ to use Qt 4.8.

-- 
David Jarvie.
KDE developer.
KAlarm author - http://www.astrojar.org.uk/kalarm





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