On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 12:00:15PM +0300, Alex Ehrlich wrote: > Hello, > > Maybe you find possible to keep bat working with Qt v 4.2? I really hope > that bat does not use 4.3+ features extensively, and at least one > widespread server distro (RedHat/CentOS latest v 5.3) uses 4.2 (4.2.1 > currently). >
Yes, I think it would be really good to keep RHEL 5 / CentOS 5 compatibility.. -- Pasi > Regards, > > Alex Ehrlich > > Kern Sibbald wrote: > > Hello Dirk, > > > > First, I have to say that the new changes to bat -- the tabbed widget in > > the > > main window look really nice. I think that most users will be quite happy > > with them. > > > > When I first loaded the code and tried to build it, it failed. It appears > > that there was a dependence on a function that is only available in Qt 4.4. > > I removed that code, which was used to hide a title bar that is not really > > needed. So now bat builds here. > > > > However, this brings up the question of what version of Qt do we require, > > and > > how do we ensure that bat builds with that version. Currently the > > documented version is Qt 4.2 or greater. I am currently on Qt 4.3.4, so it > > is not clear if bat will still build on 4.2 as is documented. > > > > I think it is reasonable to move up to Qt 4.3.4, but requiring anything > > higher > > will exclude bat from a lot of systems, or at least make it more difficult > > to > > build. > > > > If you have a higher version of Qt loaded on your system, I think it might > > be > > good for you to get the depkgs-qt release (I am not sure if it is still on > > Source Forge) and setup your bat build environment to build against it. > > That > > would help ensure that we don't run into these kinds of problems. The same > > would apply to any other developer who modifies bat (such as myself and > > Eric). > > > > What do you think? > > > > Best regards, > > > > Kern > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list Bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
