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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE Trunk based on Qt 4.6
From:       Tom Albers <toma () kde ! org>
Date:       2009-08-30 21:59:28
Message-ID: 18143578.h6p3BnSDV5 () kde ! org
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Op Sunday 30 August 2009 23:52 schreef u:
> 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

Thanks. Just gave a whole new look on Debian. 
I naively thought they would take KDE serious and would not ignore such a warning.

So, that means we can only reach one conclusion: this discussion is void, depend on \
qt4.6, there is no other option.

Toma
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KDE Developer



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