Uwe Stöhr <uwesto...@web.de> writes: > Concerning the technical gain of a recent Qt version are in my opinion > not only the few ifdef's we would save but the hundreds of fixed bugs > in Qt. I mean we didn't noticed all Qt bug because most of us are > already using a recent Qt when compiling LyX. The idea is therefore to > require a recent Qt version to assure that LyX behaves as on test > machines.
Bugs as more often in recent versions than in older ones IMO. I prefer a 4.2.3 to any 4.x.0. Do you have examples of bug that people exerience with qt 4.2.x but not later ones? However, I do not understand the reasoning. You write that you want to force people to use a new Qt in order to have less bugs. So people who run an older linux distribution will have to upgrade their linux to upgrade lyx for no other reason than that it will be better for them? I tend to like forcing people to do things for their own good, but this one is a bit exaggerated IMO. Now that I think of it, we should require Vista SP1 on windows. It passes the "one year" requirement, so I guess you would be OK with enforcing that? Of course, a few computers will be unable to run LyX, but considering how degraded the "experience" would be... JMarc
