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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: QMovie sort of working with Qt 4.4rc1, but still an issue
From:       "Dan Meltzer" <parallelgrapefruit () gmail ! com>
Date:       2008-02-08 22:18:41
Message-ID: 46059ce10802081418q2e0421dflcecb5cc9405a4da1 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 2/8/08, Erik <esigra@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dan Meltzer skrev:
> > On 2/8/08, Erik <esigra@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Thiago Macieira skrev:
> >>
> >>> On Friday 08 February 2008 10:46:53 Erik wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> I was pleased to see that QMovie is now sort of working since Qt 4.4rc1
> >>>> (tested with Gentoo package). See
> >>>> [http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142321]. But there seems to be a
> >>>> remaining problem. The animation seems to flicker (becomes completely
> >>>> white for a moment) after the first iteration. Then it seems to run
> >>>> smoothly forever. Anyone else with Qt 4.4 who can reproduce this
> >>>> problem? (Copy the attached animation and the program to a directory,
> >>>> build and run.)
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> Yes, there's a flash of white here.
> >>>
> >>>
> >> Fine, thanks for confirming! I would like to add a comment about the
> >> issue at
> >> [http://trolltech.com/developer/task-tracker/index_html?method=entry&id=155269]
> >> but I do not know how. It does not work like the KDE bug tracker.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> I'm using the latest Qt 4.4 snapshot.
> >>>
> >>> (BTW, you meant TP1, not RC1. PLEASE upgrade, since the TP1 is very old now)
> >>>
> >> I meant the Gentoo package "x11-libs/qt-4.4.0_rc1", which indeed seems
> >> to download a file called
> >> "qt-x11-preview-opensource-src-4.4.0-tp1.tar.gz". That is the newest
> >> version that Gentoo offers.
> >>
> > Yes, one does wonder why gentoo decided to name it "rc1"... .I'll be
> > very curious to see how they manage to fix things when _beta1 comes
> > out.
> Because "tp" is a rather odd kind of release. Neither I nor the Gentoo
> package manger knows what it means. The version number has to be
> recognizable and sortable. The package manager knows that version
> "4.4.0_rc1" is < "4.4.0" because it is coded to recognize the meaning of
> "rc". It will also know that "4.4c" is < "4.4d" because there are a
> handful projects that use such version numbering patterns.  But you can
> not expect the Gentoo package manager to recognize any strange release
> type abbreviation that anyone can dream up.

"Tech preview" is a strange abbreviation?

It still doesn't answer the more interesting question... what will
they do when a beta comes out and its seen by portage as older than
the tech preview?
>
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