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

[Peter Robinson]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Lars Seipel <lars.seipel at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 24 October 2010 20:24:30 Kalev Lember wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Nokia managed to upgrade Qt to 4.7 in their Maemo distribution and it got
> pushed to all devices without causing any problems so far. Their standards for
> avoiding churn are pretty high and their update scheme is extremely
> conservative for stable releases. Nevertheless they updated Qt. But they have
> a pretty good reason for doing that (aligning with future versions of MeeGo
> and Symbian). So what does a F13 user gain from an upgrade? Is it worth the
> risks?

QT isn't the default toolkit in Maemo and it was only introduced at
all in the PR1.2 release which only came out around 3-4 months ago so
its not a core part of their UI experience on maemo.

So that's not really a good argument for upgrading it in F-13.

Peter