[mythtv] [ANNOUNCE] merging Qt4 branch to trunk

[Chad]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Paul Bender <pebender at san.rr.com> wrote:

>  For the user community, the difficulty in bumping the minimum required
>  version of a package is more about how new the version is rather than
>  how often it is bumped. If the version is too new, then it causes the
>  problem that will be caused by using Qt 4.3 or 4.4: people will have to
>  build custom Qt packages that are not part of their distributions.

Wouldn't the exact same reasoning apply to the reverse logic though?
If you build for half of the distros, which "half" do you pick?  My
guess would be that you would pick the camp with the newer packages
since eventually the newer ones will have prebuilt pacakges available
in the newer version whereas if you build for the older group you
essentially require everyone at some point to continue using older
packages or 'custom' built ones.  Building ahead, to me, makes more
sense.

-Chad