HEADS UP: KDE/Qt update intentions in Fedora 13 (RFC)

[Jaroslav Reznik]

On Tuesday, October 26, 2010 06:58:52 am Manuel Escudero wrote:
> 2010/10/25 Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com>
> 
> > On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 21:24:30 +0300
> > 
> > Kalev Lember <kalev at smartlink.ee> wrote:
> > > On 10/20/2010 03:02 PM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> > > > The question is (we agreed on KDE SIG meeting yesterday) - should we
> > > > update Qt to 4.7 too or build KDE stack with current 4.6 series? As
> > > > there are a few Qt packages outside of KDE SIG/Qt maintainers scope,
> > > > we'd like to hear any objections against update - bugs we can fix
> > > > etc. Qt 4.7 is quite well tested, thanks to work on Fedora 14 (Qt
> > > > 4.7 is already included) and a lot of users are actually using this
> > > > combination in Fedora 13.
> > > 
> > > KDE is pretty much self contained, whereas a Qt upgrade affects a much
> > > larger number of packages. I don't think updating Qt to a new major
> > > version in a stable Fedora release is a good idea; it just causes too
> > > much churn.
> > 
> > ...snip...
> > 
> > I agree with Kalev here. Qt upgrade in a stable release is to be
> > avoided unless there's some severe bug or security issue that can't be
> > backported.
> > 
> > kevin
> > 
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> I have KDE 4.5.2 in my Fedora 13 wich as far as I understand uses the last
> version of Qt, the computer is working Flawlessly :D

Problem is not KDE itself but there are some more Qt apps in Fedora. And we want 
to be sure these apps are not affected by update. We are practically 100% sure 
(as we have a quite good process behind) - but you never know, so we asked for 
help. And we can help in case of issues. Final Qt is know for 100% ABI (not 
snapshots :D) compatibility, it was commercial product one year ago...

Jaroslav 
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