[mythtv] [ANNOUNCE] merging Qt4 branch to trunk

[Michael T. Dean]

On 03/17/2008 07:42 PM, Matt S. wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Paul Bender <pebender at san.rr.com> wrote:
>   
>> Janne Grunau wrote:
>>     
>>> On Monday 17 March 2008 18:52:25 Paul Bender wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Janne Grunau wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> The required Qt version will be Qt 4.3.
>>>>>           
>>>> Is there a compelling reason for requiring Qt 4.3 rather than Qt 4.2?
>>>>         
>>> I was considering even requiring the unreleased qt4.4 for qtwebkit. So
>>> 4.3 was natural other choice. I didn't spent much thought about the
>>> version since qt4.3 is a year old. My main reason for choosing 4.3 are
>>> the difficulties of bumping a required version later.
>>>       
>> When considering a stable OS, a year is not that long a time.
> If you don't want to upgrade your distro, why upgrade myth?  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.
>
> Someone's going to lose out either way... I vote for increased
> functionality than legacy support.

Besides, who's to say what the stable distros will be using when 0.22 
with QT4 support is released, anyway?  Perhaps they'll be on QT6.2 by 
then.  ;)

Mike