Qt 1.4

[Chadley Wilson]

On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 00:16, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Mo, den 15.03.2004 schrieb Chadley Wilson um 22:53:
> 
> > > > > http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/1057995/com/qt-3.2.3-0.2.i386.rpm.html
> 
> The package above is QT from FC 1.90.
> 

> Do you believe qt-3.2.3 / qt-devel-3.2.3 will provide QT version 1.4?
> Why do you think so?
> 
Well it hasnt anything to do with belief, more hope I cant seem to find
an rpm for qt1.4 and was hoping for backward compatibility!
Thats all

Chad
> I have not much experience with QT but I am fairly sure QT 3.2 is way
> different from QT 1.4. Thus even creating a symlink "faking" you have QT
> 1.4 libraries and headers, while the symlink points to the QT 3.2
> libs/headers, will probably fail.
> 
> Imagine, taking an application for Windows 3.11 and trying to install
> that on Windows XP, in very many cases this will fail. The application
> expects specific dlls and up to XP they have changed a lot.
> 
> If you really want to go on with that bloody QT 1.4, do a google
> research for the QT 1.4 source and try to compile that source. With very
> much luck that will succeed and you can install these headers/libs in
> parallel to the actual FC1 headers/libs. But perhaps the compilation
> will fail as the compiler changed too from the one in 1998.
> 
> I hope you understand what I am trying to explain.
> 
> > Thanks
> > Chad
> 
> Alexander
> 
> 
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