BL> I think stable or LTS version of linux distros still use [Qt 4.8],
Yes, that's true. In fact, debian-6 aka squeeze which has LTS support,
is at qt-4.6 (and probably will always be), and I was a bit disappointed
when this was deemed irrelevant. But so be it.
BL> I think the requirements for base system and jqt are the same
BL> except for the additional requirement of Qt library.
I think so, too.
It would certainly be nice if the docs would explicitly state which
packages are required, there are sooo many libqt-related extra libs.
This holds for both provided jqt binaries and for building jqt from the
git sources.
I was able to build jqt from git sources on my debian-wheezy ARM board
to fix the directory mess, and it looks like "libqt4-dev" is the only
required dependency, pulling in a lot more on its own. I cannot
guarentee 100% that this is the sole dependency because I had a small
handful qt-related things installed already, but it pretty much looks
like it.
HR> And, Qt 4.8 seems a little long in the tooth now. Is this still correct,
HR> or should a later version of Qt be called for?
"long in the tooth" isn't the criteria. Jqt should state the minimum
version providing the API it requires. That doesn't prevent you from
building/using jqt with a later qt version which still provides a
backward-compatible API.
Jqt should only increase its "minimum version requirement" when it
actually gets dependent on calls/features just provided by a later
version. As long as that is not the case, a later version depency
number is not called for.
Martin
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