[mythtv] [ANNOUNCE] merging Qt4 branch to trunk

[Paul Bender]

Matt S. wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Paul Bender <pebender at san.rr.com> wrote:

> If you don't want to upgrade your distro, why upgrade myth?

Your statement is equivalent to "If you don't want to buy a new house, 
why buy new window drapes."

Many people's backends act as servers for many other services. Upgrading 
MythTV is relatively benign compared to upgrading the entire OS. 
Therefore, I get a stable server while being able to upgrade MythTV.

Also, if I do not upgrade then I provide new MiniMyth releass.

 > Keep it
> as it is, a stable environment.  If you want the latest and greatest,
> then you're going to have to sacrafice a little in order to prevent
> stagnation and killing innovation.

This is a nice generality. However, can you point to specific things in 
Qt 4.3 and not in Qt 4.2 that will enable innovation in MythTV? If not, 
then the statement does not apply to this instance.

> Someone's going to lose out either way... I vote for increased
> functionality than legacy support.

That is why I asked about what the need for  4.3 over 4.2 was. You are 
assuming increased functionality. As stated "[the] main reason for 
choosing 4.3 are the difficulties of bumping a required version later.", 
not new functionality. If there is no new functionality because of using 
4.3 over 4.2, then all there is additional work for many others.