From kde-core-devel Wed Sep 02 09:39:25 2009 From: Alejandro Exojo Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:39:25 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: KDE Trunk based on Qt 4.6 Message-Id: <200909021139.25399.suy () kurly ! org> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=125188442328808 El Domingo, 30 de Agosto de 2009, Tom Albers escribió: > Op Sunday 30 August 2009 23:52 schreef u: > > On 2009-08-30, Tom Albers wrote: > > > 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. > > Thanks. Just gave a whole new look on Debian. > I naively thought they would take KDE serious and would not ignore such a > warning. You can't fully blame the packagers for this. Qt-people state that if you develop and test an app with Qt 4.x, it will run the same with Qt 4.x+1. Then KDE-people put a warning to not use Qt 4.x+1 because they haven't tested this version. Now packagers have to choose whether they should agree with Qt devs or KDE devs, so they are going to upset someone anyway. Given that 4.x+1 should work, and if it does not it's a bug, siding with the Qt devs it's the better option in the long term: if it doesn't work they are doing something wrong, and they should know it to fix it and avoid it in the future. -- Alex (a.k.a. suy) | GPG ID 0x0B8B0BC2 http://barnacity.net/ | http://disperso.net