[Kmymoney-devel] [Kmymoney2-developer] Broken QT4 build?

[Cristian Oneţ]

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Alvaro Soliverez <asoliverez at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Fernando Vilas <fvilas at iname.com> wrote:
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>> On Monday 05 October 2009 22:22:15 Alvaro Soliverez wrote:
>> > On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Fernando Vilas <fvilas at iname.com>
>> > wrote:
>> > > On Monday 05 October 2009 21:35:00 Alvaro Soliverez wrote:
>> > > > CC'ing the KMM4 mailing list.
>> > > >
>> > > > Fernando, you worked on the button groups lately. Anything to do
>> > > > with
>> > >
>> > > this?
>> > >
>> > > > Regards,
>> > > > Alvaro
>> > > >
>> > > > On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 10:49 PM, Mike Wolfe <wolfemi1 at gmail.com>
>> > > > wrote:
>> > > > > All,
>> > > > >
>> > > > > I recently updated the SVN code on my machine and tried to build.
>> > > > >  I
>> > >
>> > > got
>> > >
>> > > > > the following errors:
>> > > > > /kmymoney_base.dir/kbudgetvalues.o
>> > > > > /home/wolfemi1/svn/kmymoney/kmymoney2/widgets/kbudgetvalues.cpp:
>> > > > > In
>> > > > > constructor
>> > > > > ‘KBudgetValues::KBudgetValues(QWidget*)’:
>> > > > >
>> > > > >
>> > > > > /home/wolfemi1/svn/kmymoney/kmymoney2/widgets/kbudgetvalues.cpp:84:
>> > > > > error: ‘class KButtonGroup’ has no member named
>> > > > > ‘id’
>> > >
>> > > [... snip similar errors ...]
>> > >
>> > > > > Do I need to change something?
>> > >
>> > > I just checked, and the docs at
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > http://api.kde.org/4.x-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kdeui/html/classKButtonGroup.h
>> > >tml say that the function id() was added in 4.3.
>> > >
>> > > I overlooked that last time.  I will convert the KButtonGroups to
>> > > QGroupBoxes
>> > > with QButtonGroup attributes on the buttons.  That should be more
>> > > portable, since a lot of distros haven't upgraded to KDE 4.3 yet.
>> >
>> > Is there a way to keep the KButtonGroups but use a different method? We
>> > had
>> > problems with the QGroupBoxes before, because the API is very different
>> >  from the Qt3 one.
>> >
>>
>> After sleeping on this, I realized that KButtonGroup derives from
>> QGroupBox,
>> so we have to deal with the API change regardless.  I would still like to
>> do
>> something simple, but don't be surprised if it comes down to doing a
>> QGroupBox
>> with QButtonGroup buttons.  I'll try to get something going on this
>> tonight,
>> since I really don't like having code in SVN that only compiles for some
>> users.
>>
>
> We have not settled on the KDE version required for KMM4, and KDE 4.3 is the
> one I see as being user-ready. 4.2 was close to that, but still buggy, so
> most distributions will go for 4.3 in the short term. Also, the next
> releases for Fedora, Kubuntu and Mandriva are just a month or so away, so it
> is not such a terrible thing.
>
> So, from my point of view, if it involves too much work to fix it for
> pre-4.3 users, leave it that. We are still at the "It will eat your home
> pets and run away" stage for KMM4.
I totally agree with Alvaro on this.

Regards,
Cristian