Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > 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? > > 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). 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.
Thanks for the explanation, now I can understand and respect the requirement for qt3 under linux. Peter
