On Thursday 30 July 2009 05:27:34 pm Eric Bollengier wrote:
> Le Thursday 30 July 2009 23:24:26 Scott Barninger, vous avez écrit :
> > On Thursday 30 July 2009 05:06:11 pm Kern Sibbald wrote:
> > > On Thursday 30 July 2009 22:25:15 Felix Schwarz wrote:
> > > > Alex Ehrlich schrieb:
> > > > > * Are there any future plans for official or "semi-official" RHEL
> > > > > rpms (rpms-contrib-fschwarz is empty and no 3.0.1 was present, too
> > > > > IIRC)?
> > > >
> > > > I was abroad for quite a while with a *bad* internet connection so I
> > > > could not update these earlier. Compiling Fedora+CentOS is often a
> > > > challenge because Fedora tends to use the latest+greatest versions
> > > > which even few developers here test and CentOS has old libraries
> > > > which might need special treatment (see all the threads about bat not
> > > > building with QT 4.2).
> > >
> > > Actually, what we released with 3.0.2 does not seem to compile on Qt
> > > 4.2, but it does compile on 4.3.4, so I will be changing the
> > > documentation to require at least 4.3.
> >
> > I thought Trolltech's promise was compatiblility within "major releases"?
> > So 4.2 to 4.3 is a major release?
>
> Yes, all 4.2 should be compatible with 4.3, but all 4.3 isn't compatibile
> with 4.2... Some bat features are using QT 4.3.

Ah, then it is "our bad" so to speak? As a friend of mine was fond of 
saying, "Is the juice worth the squeeze?" Are those 4.3 features worth 
breaking backward compatibility so that we are contemplating re-packaging a 
large software package like QT with our releases just to make our application 
work? This doesn't bode well in my mind for stable releases.

>
> > > If you want a version that *does* work with bat,
> > > download the package in the depkgs-qt area (depkgs-qt-28Jul09.tar.gz).
> > > When you detar it, do the following:
> > >
> > > cd depkgs-qt
> > > make qt4
> > >
> > > then when you build Bacula, either source the qt4-paths file in
> > > depkgs-qt or execute them directly before building, and eliminate any
> > > code in the .spec file that resets the QTxxx environment variables. 
> > > With that, you should be able to build most distributions with Bat --
> > > providing you want to.
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > >
> > > Kern



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