Personally, I think making Qt4.8 mandatory for KDE4.8 without strong
reasons to do so raises the barrier a bit too high for casual
contributors willing to fix bugs. I personally find Qt harder to compile
than kde and am quite reluctant to update, just to be able to still fix
bugs in oxygen.
Hugo
On Thursday 12 January 2012, Marco Martin wrote:
On Thursday 12 January 2012, Martin Gräßlin wrote:
Our distributions will ship 4.8 together with 4.8 and this
combination might just be untested by the maintainers. So I
strongly suggest that we make Qt 4.8 a dependency for master just
to get the code tested and fixed before distros use it.
So unless there is a good reason why not to increase, I would like
to see master depend on Qt 4.8.
yep, that is the most valid reason imo, distribution will have 4.8,
no matter what
That's no valid reason. Distributions shipped kdepim 4.4 together with
Qt 4.7. Still we never made Qt 4.7 a hard requirement for kdepim 4.4.
If you want developers to switch to Qt 4.8 to get the KDE code better
tested with this version of Qt then simply ask developers to do so. I
see no good reason to force developers to do so.
Regards,
Ingo
