On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 11:59:22AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Andre> 'Using LyX 1.5 on a distribution shipped in July 2006' means > Andre> 'installing LyX 1.5'. Installing Qt 4 in the same place is > Andre> about the same (I'd even argue 'less') effort and requires the > Andre> same set of priviledges. > > Are we 100% sure that no other rpm on the system will insist on having > the version of qt4 that shipped with the distribution? This is where > trouble begins, in general.
In this hypothetical case it would be possible to link LyX against 'our' Qt version statically. > Andre> I think it is sufficient to keep Qt 3 compilable, let GTK rot > Andre> (in the sense to declare it 'tolerated, but not supported by > Andre> the core team'), and put all effort into Qt 4. > > Also, are we sure that at that time qt4 will be at least as fast as > qt3? Not unless TT decides to keep an eye on speed in general. But Qt 4 is not much worse than Qt 3 speedwise nowadays. Andre'
