[mythtv] i know that qt4 is not supported

Stuart Morgan stuart at tase.co.uk
Wed Feb 7 12:05:14 UTC 2007


On Wednesday 7 February 2007 11:48, Simon Kenyon wrote:
> the question is more one of why?
>
> 1 because there is no intention of moving to qt4
> 2 because nobody has contributed a set of patches
> 3 because having both qt3 and qt4 in the same codebase would be far too
> messy
>
> should it be option 2, then that can be addressed.

A bit of #2, with a lot of #3 and also #4 (QT4 isn't widely distributed yet).

Backwards compatibility is essential until QT4 is distributed with every 
distro.

Moving to QT4 isn't trivial from what I've been told, it will mean large 
rewrites of certain areas.
-- 
Stuart Morgan


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