scythia-0.9.3-5.fc14 (was: Re: rawhide report: 20100224 changes)

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Thu Feb 25 04:32:30 UTC 2010


I wrote:
> Uh, was this really necessary? Qt 4.6.2 is normally backwards-compatible
> with 4.5.x.

PS:
Running application X built against Qt 4.5.x with Qt 4.6.x SHOULD work.
Running application X built against Qt 4.6.x with Qt 4.5.x WILL NOT work 
(and this is why pushing apps built against a new Qt to stable BEFORE that 
Qt gets pushed to stable is a bad idea, but rebuilding appliations for the 
new Qt is normally NOT needed).
This is known as one-way (backwards only) compatibility, and quite common.

That said, some applications do need to be rebuilt due to backwards 
compatibility issues, or get more features when rebuilt against a newer Qt. 
But as you did not include a Bugzilla reference nor any other form of 
rationale, I can't figure out why you rebuilt this particular application.

        Kevin Kofler



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