[kde-freebsd] switching to Qt4 any time soon?

[Andy Fawcett]

On Monday 02 July 2007 08:23:29 Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I'm preparing to upgrade print/lyx to the soon-to-be-released version
> 1.5.0.
>
> One of the things of note about the new version is that it has only
> ONE front-end -- Qt4. Although Gtk front-end might return later, the
> XForms and the Qt3 front-ends are gone for good.
>
> Which leads me to ask about the ETA of Qt4 support (by default?) by
> KDE... It would be nicer, if Qt3 were no longer required for a
> well-equipped desktop.

Qt4 will come in for KDE when KDE4 hits the tree. Estimate from the KDE 
side is late October this year. KDE3 will never use Qt4.

> Also, after installing Qt4 (for the first time), I was surprised to
> find glib among the dependencies. I thought, Qt4 is available under
> both GPL and a commercial license, which means, use of glib ought to
> be optional... Not sure, how it got there -- maybe, through one of
> the Xorg's components?

It seems it is brought in as a LIB_DEPENDS on (at least) 
devel/qt4-corelib. I'm not sure if it could be made optional, I guess 
lofi could comment on that.

Andy

> Thanks! Yours,
>
> 	-mi
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