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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: The HEAD branch now requires a new QT
From:       "Robert D. Williams" <rwilliams () jrc-utah ! com>
Date:       1999-10-10 4:59:24
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Will someone make a tar ball of the QT version of 9/10/1999?  I can not get
the latest QT CVS  tonight.  If someone does ( highly recommend ) where
shall it be put?

P.S.  Are far is Qt 2.1 for release?

David Faure wrote:

> Since canossa requires some stuff that isn't in Qt 2.0.x (namely
> the wonderful QAction, and some other stuff), KDE now needs
> a recent Qt.
> But to prevent the problems we had when we were dependent
> on Qt's CVS a while ago, the following has been decided :
> * until further notice, we'll stick with the current version
> (that is 09/10/1999)
> * the classes that will probably change very often, since they are
> not compiled by Qt's Makefiles, have been put in kdelibs/kdecore/qk,
> and libqk is automatically linked when linking kdecore. This temporary
> measure will allow to benefit from fixes in those classes without having
> to update the Qt CVS too often.
>
> When compiling Qt, a special care has to be taken :
> cp qt/src/emoc/* qt/src/moc
> in order to use emoc instead of the standard Qt moc
>
> Then make clean and recompile the whole Qt.
>
> Sorry for the trouble, but it's really worth the effort.
> Hopefully we won't have to switch to another Qt in the near future.
>
> --
> David FAURE
> david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
> http://home.clara.net/faure/
> KDE, Making The Future of Computing Available Today

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Robert Williams              rwilliams@jrc-utah.com
Jarob Consulting             rwilliams@kde.org
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