[mythtv] [ANNOUNCE] merging Qt4 branch to trunk

Colin Guthrie mythtv at colin.guthr.ie
Tue Mar 18 10:56:51 UTC 2008


Just to dive right in here....

This is a great time to do some housekeeping. QT4 port is a big change.
Personally I'd vote for the almost-released 4.4. The webkit argument is
good enough for me.

Stop whining that x distro only has QT 4.2 and therefore you should live
in the past. It's not that hard to upgrade Qt4. I'm sure repositories
for your distro will have qt4.4 builds available when it's released.
Amarok2 and other apps already require it for the webkit support, and
Myth should too IMO.

Certainly in Mandriva we have 4.3.1 in our stable release and we'll have
4.3.4 in the next version due out shortly. 4.3.4 has also been
officially backported to our stable release for those that want it and
when we switch to 4.4 in our devel os we'll do the same with that.

By the time .23 is out Qt 4.4 will be out and there will be repositories
available for it for all major distros.

Upgrading is not that much of a pain IMO and should not stifle development.

Col

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