On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 09:12:29AM +0100, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > It seems that we will be able to get rid of the smallcaps hack with Qt4.4: > > http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2007/11/10/opendocument-and-qt-fonts-goodness/ > > Of course we won't use 4.4 until 2020 so that's not really good news :-) > > On a related note, I know and understand all the argument about supporting > Qt4.1 but there's now a number of #ifdef because of that. There's also > session support which is much improved in 4.2. Could we please decide to > bump the requirement without an hatred discussion? > So far I haven't seen thousands of users complaining that we didn't support > 4.0 in 1.5 and I reckon that 4.2 is already very widespread.
As far as I know Qt 4.2 will be _obligatory_ part of the Linux Standard Base v3.2. That's as "widespread" as it can get in the Linux world. Basically every distribution released after "now" will have it. As far as I am concerned hacks for < 4.2 can just be removed. > think 4.3 is by now even more widespread because that is the requirement of > latest KDE4 betas but no, I am _not_ proposing to use that. I am proposing > to settle on Qt4.2.2 which fixed a number of bugs. > > Please, no ironic exchange, no political discussion, just the technical > pros and cons and the facts. The details are pretty technical ;-) Andre'
