On 11/19/2011 04:30 PM, Alan Brown wrote: > On 18/11/11 19:48, Kern Sibbald wrote: >> Hello Alan, >> >> Concerning Bat, in Linux as is documented in the ReleaseNotes, it must be >> compiled with the correct version of Qt4, which is version 4.6.2. > I'm cmpiling on RHEL5 which is Qt4.2 by default.
Yes, for the Enterprise binaries (rpms) on RHEL5, I compile with depkgs-qt. For RHEL6, they are on Qt 4.6.2, so the depkgs-qt is not needed. > >> All the ui files compile correctly with that version of Qt4, and it >> produces a stable Bat. If you have another version of Qt4 (or Qt3) >> installed on your system, you *must* then use the depkgs-qt that we >> release on SourceForge. > I'll look at that, thanks. > > The error message is misleading. What error message? If it is a message from Bat, we can add detection of the Qt version at runtime and fail Bat if it isn't at least the version we expect or later. > >> Qt turns out to be one of the most incompatible libraries that I have >> ever seen from version to version. > Why not move to something like gtk? We used gtk in the gnome console, and first it is C so lacks the additions one can get with C++ ((there is probably a gtk+ wrapper, but it doesn't interest me). The problem with GTK is that at least some time ago, it had a horrible GUI builder. GTK being C, although it may have a more stable API than Qt, has as many or more problems than Qt. I had as many or more problems with the Gnome console and different versions of GTK as we have with Qt. Anyway, converting Bat from Qt to GTK would be a total rewrite, something that doesn't interest me personally. The problems with Qt are minimal, and we have documented "it" pretty well: Build on the version that we are use for development -- that is all. It is sort of like if you program for Postgres 8.3, you almost certainly will have problems on Postgres 9.1 -- upgrades are not always so evident. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list Bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
