Andre Poenitz wrote:
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 11:59:22AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
Andre> 'Using LyX 1.5 on a distribution shipped in July 2006' means
Andre> 'installing LyX 1.5'. Installing Qt 4 in the same place is
Andre> about the same (I'd even argue 'less') effort and requires the
Andre> same set of priviledges.
Are we 100% sure that no other rpm on the system will insist on having
the version of qt4 that shipped with the distribution? This is where
trouble begins, in general.
In this hypothetical case it would be possible to link LyX against 'our'
Qt version statically.
I've tried to use this same argument but never managed to convince JMarc&Co.
Andre> I think it is sufficient to keep Qt 3 compilable, let GTK rot
Andre> (in the sense to declare it 'tolerated, but not supported by
Andre> the core team'), and put all effort into Qt 4.
Also, are we sure that at that time qt4 will be at least as fast as
qt3?
Not unless TT decides to keep an eye on speed in general.
But Qt 4 is not much worse than Qt 3 speedwise nowadays.
And qt4 (the frontend) is already faster than qt3 nowadays on Windows
and Linux.
Abdel.
