On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 08:19:27AM +0100, Ozgur Ugras BARAN wrote: > Well, the Akademy did not held, yet, therefore the release date of > KDE4 did not announced. But my guess is it will be around Sept. 2007 > as earliest. Therefore, many distros that releases yearly or twice > yearly will be released with KDE4/QT4 default earliest in May 2008. In > short you can expect smb have a KDE4/QT4 on his desktop, earliest in > Sept./2008. Two years from now on.. Shall not we planning a major > release before two years??
KDE4 is just _one_ user of Qt 4. All recent distributions already have Qt 4 (in parallel to Qt 3) > And also there are many people, who do not upgrade his/her distro that > frequently. (For example I use SuSE 9.3 at home, simply because I > prefer gcc 3.3 over 4.0 on that particular machine and I find it very > difficult to downgrade in SuSE 10.1 :) ). So what? You do not need to update your distro just to have Qt4 installed. I am writing this on a SuSE 9.0 machine btw. > Therefore, we should support qt3 for at least three years for *NIXes. > For WINDOWS and Mac, we can just drop it. Your data is wrong, so the conclusion does not need to be valid. > One more thing, If you have difficulties maintaining qt3 frontend, I > can try to handle it. Waste of resources. Andre' PS: Please do not top post/full quote.
