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

[Bill Nottingham]

Peter Robinson (pbrobinson at gmail.com) said: 
> > 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.

Also, I'd assume that Maemo explictily ships/supports a much smaller set
of software than Fedora, so they can explicitly list all their dependencies
that may need fixed.

Bill