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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE Trunk based on Qt 4.6
From:       Sune Vuorela <nospam () vuorela ! dk>
Date:       2009-08-30 21:52:11
Message-ID: slrnh9lt4b.720.nospam () sshway ! ssh ! pusling ! com
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On 2009-08-30, Tom Albers <toma@kde.org> wrote:
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> Op Sunday 30 August 2009 23:27 schreef u:
> > On 8/30/09, Albert Astals Cid <aacid@kde.org> wrote:
> > > A Diumenge, 30 d'agost de 2009, Tom Albers va escriure:
> > > > Op Sunday 30 August 2009 15:15 schreef u:
> > > > > Qt 4.6 will be released end of this year [...]. So should we \
> > > > > based the trunk on top of 4.6 for KDE 4.4?
> > > > 
> > > > My humble opinion is that if Qt 4.6 is released before KDE 4.4 Beta \
> > > > 1, we can depend on it. If not released before November 11th, we \
> > > > can not test it properly and can not depend on it.
> > > 
> > > I'm with Tom here, don't depend on something you can not test, that's \
> > > rule number one of the software development, and 4.6 does not exist \
> > > so we can't test it.
> > 
> > problem is that distributions will ship KDE4.4 with Qt 4.6 anyways, so
> > any problem that can be it will be there anyways, not depending on 4.6
> > just denies features
> 
> I'm sure we can make a cmake check which will give a big fat warning to \
> distro's to not do that. 

Which distros will ignore.  Qt is not only used by KDE, and Qt is
expected to keep compability and no behaviour changes.

/Sune


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