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

[Pablo de Vicente]

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El Miércoles, 14 de Enero de 2004 22:12, Jason Harris escribió:
> 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.

I can confirm this also works for me on a Debian with KDE 3.1.4 and Qt 3.1.2

>
> 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.

It is fine with me.

>
> regards,
> Jason

regards,

Pablo.
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