kdelibs and Qt version dependency

[Stephen Kelly]

Dirk Mueller wrote:

> On Tuesday 05 June 2012, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> 
>> On May 19, Dawit Alemayehu commited a change that uses
>> QSslConfiguration::testSslOption that is only available in Qt 4.8
>> 
>> This means that both kdelibs 4.8.4 and kdelibs 4.9 now depend in Qt 4.8
>> instead Qt 4.7
> 
> Hi Albert,
> 
> thanks for noticing. I confirmed the issue and I can confirm that 4.8.3
> compiled fine with Qt 4.7.
> 
>> 
>> a) Do you think it makes sense to change our Qt required version from
>> Qt 4.7 in kdelibs 4.8.3
>> to
>> Qt 4.8 in kdelibs 4.8.4
>> ?
> 
> I think for kdelibs 4.8.4 we should make the dependency on Qt 4.8
> optional. can we ifdef the change for Qt 4.8? is there a way to fallback ?
> 
> 
>> 
>> b) Do you think kdelibs 4.9 should depend in Qt 4.8 or not?
> 
> I'd be in favor of that change.
> 
> Greetings,
> Dirk

I agree with Dirk on both counts.