On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 08:26:47PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 05:59:33PM +0200, 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. > > And 3.3.8 was released six months ago. What are you trying to say here? > The fact that older versions are maintained does not imply that using > them for new development is a good idea. Not even remotely.
This is you opinion, of course. What I can say is that Qt4 does not work well with solaris 10, for example. I don't get antialiased fonts and it is a real pain for reading. It is even worse than with the old Xforms frontend. On the contrary, Qt3 works perfectly well and I don't plan switching to lyx 1.5 on solaris until some OS upgrade brings me antialiased fonts back. I don't know what is the problem here, but I can't get antialiasing with Qt4 even after tampering with fontconfig. > What really makes me sick here is the application of double standards. > > For boost we require the newest and shiniest and to be reasonably able > to use this we even include it in our sources! And if this results in > brown-paper-bag releases as 1.5.0 was it's just considered 'business as > usual'. I don't want to argue with you here, because I more or less share your opinion, but at least boost is included and automatically used. > On the other hand, for Qt we are not even allowed to use the > _penultimate_ _released_ version. > > What crap is that? If a Qt3 frontend was provided, I will be using LyX 1.5 on solaris, as that is not the case, I will be still sticking with 1.4 for the time being. With that attitude you may scare away users of alternative systems, which often can't even have the third last released version. -- Enrico
