Danek Duvall wrote: > Is QT4 source incompatible from dot-release to dot-release? That is, does > Google need to use the same version of QT for all the platforms where they > use it for a given app? > I think everybody should remember that not all FOSS is acceptable for Solaris.
One of the common reasons is that a community doesn't respect the concept of "upward compatibility", at least below some well advertised point (usually at the Major release level). If indeed the "QT community" doesn't respect this concept, the packages simply are not appropriate for Solaris. (I don't have a clue as to if the QT community respects this - I'm just reading that the possibility exists from Danek's question.) Sometimes the cost of having something overwhelms the benefit of it. Such components should not migrate from "extra value" delivery into the actual product. (BTW: in this message, Solaris == OpenSolaris) - jek3
