[bt-devel] Qt versions and Hardy Backport of Bibletime 2.0

[Gary Holmlund]

Jonathan Marsden wrote:
> John A. Sullivan III wrote:
>
>   
>> 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
>>     
>
> OK.  If this is common, then perhaps the decision to require Qt 4.4.0
> for BT 2.0 was unfortunate.  But I'm just a packager...
>
> I'm somewhat surprised that people stick with LTS on the desktop.
> Commonly used packages like OpenOffice have been radically updated since
> then, for instance.  As have GCC and most other development tools, and
> KDE, among other things, if your staff are doing development work.
>
> Maybe someone really will have to backport Qt 4.4.x to hardy?
>
> Jonathan
>   
The system that I used during much of the BibleTime development used 
Hardy. I had Qt 4.4.1 on it. I believe I had to enable one of the 
standard extra repositories to get it. It is certainly available. I 
recently upgrade that system to Jaunty so I can't investigate it further.

Also, there was a good reason we went to Qt 4.4. This is the first 
version of Qt to have QtWebKit. This allowed us to eliminate KDE 
libraries that had been in use.

Gary