Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
"Abdelrazak" == Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Abdelrazak> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
"Lars" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Lars> AFAIK (and this depends on when 1.5 is ready) not all
Lars> distributions have Qt4 as default yet. IMHO that is a
Lars> requirement to drop qt3.
Yes. Among the distributions that are current today, how many ship
a version of qt4 that qt4 developers would consider 'reasonable'?
What is the minimal version? Is qt 4.1.0 enough?
Abdelrazak> 4.1.0 will do fine yes but for speed I would recommend the
Abdelrazak> latest.
So there is currently _no_ linux distribution that has a qt4 really
good enough for LyX? Is your plan to tell people that they should not
bother about LyX if their distribution is more than one year old?
Last point on that issue and I'll shut up. We are talking about LyX-1.5
which won't be out for _months_.
So yes, I think we can say that to the user when LyX-1.5.0 is out.
And I do not like bundling either. This whole stuff began because Qt4
was a must for supporting windows the way it deserves to be (or
something like that).
AFAIR, the Qt4 port was started because I wanted to learn Qt. The fact
that I run windows is just an unfortunate hazard ;-)
There has been a lot of work in this direction
recently, in particular thanks to Bo's work, and I am glad to see
that.
But after seeing all these messages on how we should understand the
specific needs of windows users, here is another one from linux users:
The application should work with the same version of qt as the
distrib's KDE.
I agree 100% that using the latest and greatest qt4 in the binary
distribution is the best solution for Windows and Mac. The situation
is different with unix/linux, that's all.
I agree that my reasons to advocate qt4 are a bit selfish. But please
take out of your mind that it is just for Windows. Taking a decision on
qt4 would make _my_ life easier as a developer. I think there are still
a few thing to cleanup in the GUI/Kernel separation and I would be
relieved to not have to worry about other frontends. My work is _not_
Windows specific. That said you are allowed to think that my work is not
useful ;-)
Abdel.
