scythia-0.9.3-5.fc14

Jaroslav Reznik jreznik at redhat.com
Thu Feb 25 09:13:55 UTC 2010


On Thursday 25 February 2010 07:46:21 Haïkel Guémar wrote:
> Le 25/02/2010 05:32, Kevin Kofler a écrit :
> > 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
> 
> I experienced few network hangs-up using Scythia/Qt 4.6.x, recompiling
> seemed to solve them. 

Well, It should be reported.

> Since Qt 4.6.x wasn't in package collection yet,
> there was no ticket in RHBZ.
> Thanks for reporting about the F-13 build, that's an oversight.
> 
> H.

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