[mythtv] [ANNOUNCE] merging Qt4 branch to trunk

[Paul Bender]

Michael T. Dean wrote:
> 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.  ;)

QT 3 : released 10/2001
QT 4 : released 06/2005
QT 5 : ???
QT 6 : ???

I release that there was a somewhat long time between 0.20 and 0.21, but 
  I was hoping that the time between 0.21 and 0.22 would be less not 
much more. ;)