Leuven, E. wrote: > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> You can revert that and say that those who want to get rid of qt3 >> because they will feel more comfortable will be morally engaged to do >> whatever is needed to make lyx run and be packaged on all the >> not-so-old linux distribs. This means _good_ packaging of binaries >> (we provide binaries in a very uncoordinated way currently), and some >> organization to make sure that people will just have to download and >> install a couple of package. > > correct me if i am wrong, but the only issue is the availability of qt4 right? > > atm this seems to sum it up on linux for the major distros: > > * Arch Linux (4.1.4) > * Debian Etch (testing) 4.1.3 (some 4.1.2) > * Debian Sid (unstable) 4.1.3 > * Fedora 4 4.1.4 > * Fedora 5 4.1.4 > * Red Hat 9 4.1.4 > * Red Hat Ent 4 4.1.4 > * SUSE 10.0 4.1.4 > * SUSE 10.1 4.1.4 > * Ubuntu Dapper 4.1.2 > > and by the time all the unicode stuff is ironed out it will be 2007 anyway... >
here the link: http://www.blogistan.co.uk/qt/ > (i don't see how qt4 is different in terms of packaging than qt3) > >> The only thing that scares me is what is the _next_ thing that will >> be on the chopping block. Ispell and gtk are a no-brainer; but then? >> When heads begin to roll, the people demands more blood ;-) > > ah, vous êtes français ! > > 1. profound suspicion of, and resistance to change > 2. all change must happen through revolution > > as someone who has been living in paris for the last 3 years i suddenly feel > strangely at home... > > ;-) > > -- Peter Kümmel
