[Kstars-devel] KStars 3.2 on KDE 3.1.x

[Jason Harris]

Hello,

With the release of KDE 3.2 approaching, we are again faced with the question: 
should we support "older" versions of Qt/KDE (in this case, Qt/KDE 3.1.x)?

We have had a couple of people recently asking about compiling KDE from CVS 
under KDE 3.1.x.  It isn't trivial to do, because some parts of the code 
assume that KDE/Qt 3.2 is required.  However, I have a KDE 3.1.4 machine at 
work, and I was able to compile KStars-CVS after some trivial changes:

+ change first line of configure.in.in to "#MIN_CONFIG(3.1)"
+ modify version strings of some UI files to "3.1.2".

That's it.  After that, KStars compiles and runs fine under 3.1.x.

So, I'm thinking about releasing a tarball for which these changes have been 
made to coincide with the KDE 3.2 release.  This would let people who (for 
whatever reason) are not upgrading to KDE 3.2 right away, to still have the 
latest KStars.

Any thoughts or opinions?  The support for 3.1.x will probably not extend 
beyond the 3.2 branch, because one of the things I want to do is start using 
some of the new features available in 3.2, such as the splashscreen, and the 
new configuration classes.

regards,
Jason
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