On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 9:56 PM, Craig Ringer <craig at postnewspapers.com.au> wrote: > John Culleton wrote: >> When 1.3.5 is updated to work with Qt4 will it no longer work with >> Qt3? Slackware tends to be a bit slow with such updates. > > Qt3 and Qt4 are not compatible, so a program that uses Qt4 cannot work > with Qt3. > > You can build your own Qt4 for Slackware, though. As a slackware user > you're probably pretty used to building your own more up to date > versions of required libraries and programs, so I don't imagine this > will be a big deal. Qt4 is not difficult to compile and install. You > might even want to give it a try now so you're confident that it'll all > work. > > -- > Craig Ringer
To add to Craig's reply, there are third-party packages of Qt4 for Slackware 12.0 and 12.1 available at http://www.slacky.eu. The packages from www.slacky.eu are generally well-built. HTH, John
