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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: KOffice Lies about requirements and then refuses to accept bug
From:       Boudewijn Rempt <boud () valdyas ! org>
Date:       2006-11-08 6:48:18
Message-ID: 200611080748.18999.boud () valdyas ! org
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On Wednesday 08 November 2006 03:27, John McCann wrote:
> "For the stable KOffice 1.6 you need Qt 3.3.x, arts >= 1.3, and kdelibs
>
> >= 3.3.0 (kdebase >= 3.3.0 is recommended too)."
>
> http://koffice.org/download/source.php
>
> I guess no one bothered to try to build it on 3.3.0 as I believe you
> need 3.4 at a minium for the setShadeSortColumn
> koOpenPaneBase.cc: In constructor
> `KoOpenPaneBase::KoOpenPaneBase(QWidget*, const char*, uint)':
> koOpenPaneBase.cc:50: error: 'class KListView' has no member named
> 'setShadeSortColumn'

Yes, it's quite probable nobody compiled it against an old Qt, so this kind of 
mistakes slips in. We don't have a build farm, just our (that is, the 
developers', personal machines), and we haven't gotten reports from the 
distributions because no distribution still ships 3.3.0.

Which doesn't mean that we shouldn't either fix the code or update the 
requirements, of course (or both).

> Fair enough you guys made a mistake so what do I do after I've
> downloaded 55 megs which at our excess rate would be $5.50 or so. Then I
> go off and sign-up to the KDE bugzilla and try to submit a report so you
> guys will correct your information and not mis-lead people but it tells
> me more or less sorry your version is to old go away. Great so I can't
> even follow your own bug request system.

Which bug number is that? I couldn't find any bug associated with your email 
address or a likely summary line.

> Waste of my time and I'd assume a lot of people would think it is a
> waste of their time when they have put some much effort into their
> respective parts of KOffice just to have it fall apart because A) no one
> tested it on the baseline system B) someone made some bad policies about
> bug reporting.

Well, there isn't a whole lot of people who use KDE 3.3.0 and even fewer who 
try to do their own compiling... But if someone closed your report as invalid 
he probably made another mistake.

-- 
Boudewijn Rempt 
http://www.valdyas.org/fading/index.cgi

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