Georg Baum wrote: > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >>>>>>> "Abdel" == Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>>>> writes: >>>> 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? >> Abdel> Last point on that issue and I'll shut up. We are talking >> Abdel> about LyX-1.5 which won't be out for _months_. >> >> Yes, this is what I wrote. When it is out, we should be able to >> support distributions that are about 2 years old. > > IMO we don't need to require that 2 year old distros have qt4 packages > installed by default, but packages should be available from a standard > source, e.g. either the vendor (like fedora extras) or some well known > backport place (e.g. www.backports.org for debian) > Current (by the time 1.5 is released) distros should of course have qt4 > instead of qt3 by default. > > > Georg > >
To get an impression how Qt4 is available atm see the upper left corner at: http://www.blogistan.co.uk/qt/ and http://www.blogistan.co.uk/qt/2006/05/introducing_qt4_package_watch.php