[Kst] KDE 3.2 Requirement

[Marc-Antoine Miville-Deschenes]

Hello

On HFI we are using KST on more than 20 computers (half are dedicated 
calibration machines
and the other half are laptops used by scientists). It's not a bad 
timing to make the change now
as we are in between two calibration runs.
New machines are going to arrive in the next weeks/months. We will
instal a newer Linux distribution on these but it is out of the 
question to ask everybody to switch
from RD9 to a newer distribution solely on the basis of KST.

We have 2 questions:
1) What Linux distributions should we instal on our new machines ?
2) Can you provide a list of packages that need to be installed for KST 
to work with RD9 ?

cheers

Marc-Antoine

On 14-Apr-05, at 2:00 AM, George Staikos wrote:

> On Wednesday 13 April 2005 19:24, Andrew Walker wrote:
>> I would rather leave it at KDE 3.1. If there are specific
>> features (such as js) that don't work (or we don't want
>> to take the time to make it work) then that feature would
>> not be supported. I think there's still a diehard RedHat9
>> crowd that exists and should be able to run core Kst
>> functionality.
>
>    That doesn't change the fact that their OS is quickly becoming 
> obsolete.
> It would be nice to see some actual cases of real Kst users who are 
> stuck
> with KDE 3.1 and really can't update.
>
>   For now I think we're compatible except for our .ui files which are 
> probably
> really broken on pre-3.2 Qt versions.  It's very tedious to keep this 
> up
> though.  Also given how broken RedHat9 is in general (really bad 
> issues with
> Gnome, glibc, gcc), it would be nice to see that eliminated as a 
> variable
> from support issues.  I've spent some rather ridiculous amounts of time
> trying to fix Kst "bugs" that turned out to be system issues.
>
>    The bottom line: We're mostly KDE 3.1 compatible but it's becoming 
> tedious
> and the platform is becoming obsolete.  Do we have any cases of 
> deployments
> on RH9 that really can't change?  (HFI is on RH9 presently...)
>
> -- 
> George Staikos
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Marc-Antoine Miville-Deschenes
Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale
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