[Kst] branches/work/kst/portto4/kst/devel-docs/Kst2Specs

[Adam Treat]

On Thursday 30 August 2007, you wrote:
> > Nicholas, I'll reply more vigorously later, but for now, why
> > don't you try and build kst2?  It is incredibly easy.  All
> > you need is a working Qt4 install and a QTDIR setup
> > appropriately and then go into the toplevel dir and do 'build-kst' :)
>
> Really ? As I wrote in an email recently, I can't wait to try out kst2
> and have been expecting a signal that it is worth building (you know,
> like it will actually display something vaguely resembling a plot :-)).
> In some of your recent commits, I saw that it was possible to draw plots
> now, and was wondering whether the time had come... So I went to
> techbase.kde.org to see what the requirements were to build KDE4, and I
> was put off because it wasn't quite so easy and I didn't have time.
>
> Now, if I understand you correctly KDE4 libs are not needed for kst2 at
> this point ? In that case, I'll have kst2 running by tonight ! As a
> matter of fact I happen to have Qt 4.3 installed in a corner of my
> system :-)

That is correct.  KDE4 is not required to build Kst2 at all.  It is now a 
qmake project.  In the future, we plan to make a compile time option to use 
KDE4 bits and goodies, but we can now build and use Kst with just Qt 
dependency.

Cheers,

Adam