[bt-devel] Qt versions and Hardy Backport of Bibletime 2.0 (was: Re: BibleTime 2.0 Ubuntu packages released )

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 01:19 -0700, Jonathan Marsden wrote:
> Wolfgang Stradner E wrote:
> 
> > I have Kubuntu 8.04-Hardy, Xubuntu 8.10-Intrepid and Ubuntu 9.04-Jaunty
> > on my computers.
> > Would you mind to make a package also for Ubuntu 8.04-Hardy, the actual
> > LTS (long time support) version of Ubuntu?
> 
> I tried.  I'm getting a message at build time:
> 
>   CMake Error: The installed Qt version 4.3.4 is too old,
>   at least version 4.4.0 is required
> 
> when I try to build on Hardy.  I think this could only be fixed by
> backporting and packaging of Qt 4.4.0 or later for Hardy, which is a
> project I'm not willing to attempt at this stage :)
> 
> I don't think you can compile BibleTime 2.0 on Hardy from the source
> tarball (without obtaining a newer Qt from outside of the Ubuntu
> repositories, at least!).  That makes this a conscious choice by the
> BibleTime developers to no longer support the (old) version of Qt in
> Hardy -- and so this is not really my fault :)
> 
> > The same for Bibledit please (a bibledit - 3.7~hardy1 package)
> 
> This may be possible; it compiles on Hardy, at least.  However one of
> the package building tools (debhelper) we used does not have some
> features in its Hardy version that we made use of... so I'd have to
> rework that part of the packaging process.  Not a quick and simple
> thing, but doable if I really need to do it.
> 
> Is the continuing use of Hardy on desktops (and notebooks) something
> that is common in SIL, or common among translators?
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I'm still using Hardy and all my company end users are using Hardy.  We
don't plan to move until the next LTS release.  Thanks - John
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