On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 06:31:33PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Enrico Forestieri wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 07:37:25AM +0200, Peter Kümmel wrote: > > > >> Enrico Forestieri wrote: > >>> On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 07:44:32PM +0200, Peter Kümmel wrote: > >>> > >>>> LyX 1.5 is released now, why not drop the requirement Qt >= 4.1? > >>> This is becoming tedious. Any bells and whistles may be added > >>> through conditional compilation without the need for bumping > >>> the requirements. So, if you like candies, you can use the latest > >>> versions, and if you like efficiency, you are not forced to use them > >>> simply for the flashing lights. Then, you cannot pretend that anyone > >>> should install a new version because of an unessential feature. > >>> > >> > >> I just wanna see who objects first ;) > > > > Please, be serious. Qt 4.1.5 was released no more than ten months ago. > > Still, I'd be curious to see how many people on X11 use Qt4.1... I bet > not a lot. All the predicted integration problem did not really happened > AFAICS.
There have been already complaints for the dismission of the Qt3 frontend by the FreeBSD people. There are other systems in the world other than Windows and Linux. > FWIW, I don't really care about the bells and whistles, there are enough > of them to use even in Qt 4.0. But I do care about conditional > compilations to avoid bugs in Qt 4.1. I also do care about code > simplification that would results in a switch to 4.2 (I'm thinking about > Edwin's toolbar widget for example). Then go ahead and require a Qt snapshot such that you can have more fun and less problems. > PS: Qt 4.1.5 was released October 20, 2006. But Qt 3.3.8 was released > February, 14 2007. Yet we don't use it ;-) And that is a real shame. -- Enrico
