[mythtv] [ANNOUNCE] merging Qt4 branch to trunk

[Paul Bender]

Janne Grunau wrote:
> This email is being sent to serve as a warning to users that we will
> start porting MythTV to Qt4 in trunk monday or tuesday next week (March 
> 17th or 18th, 2008).
> 
> Due to the low-level of the changes it is not feasible to do the port in 
> a branch. This and the huge amount of changes will most likely cause 
> some instabilities in the coming weeks.
> 
> It is recommended to switch productive systems to release-0-21-fixes. 
> Not updating for some time would work too but it will miss bugfixes 
> committed to the release branch.
> 
> The required Qt version will be Qt 4.3.
> 
> Janne

Is there a compelling reason for requiring Qt 4.3 rather than Qt 4.2?

I ask this because RHEL 5.1 and therefore CentOS 5.1 come with Qt 4.2.1. 
Many people (including myself) use RHEL/CentOS for their backend so that 
they can stay off the OS upgrade treadmill. As of now, the next minor 
RHEL (5.2) release does not ugrade Qt. Therefore, Qt 4.3 would require 
custom RPMs. It would be unfortunate to require custom Qt RPMs in order 
to upgrade MythTV.