Stefan Teleman wrote: > > > Joseph Kowalski wrote: > >> If indeed the "QT community" doesn't respect this concept, the >> packages simply >> are not appropriate for Solaris. > > Then Apache, MySQL, PHP, and all the other FOSS software packages > which are already in Solaris, in /usr, are not appropriate for Solaris > either. Unfortunaltely you seem to have elided what I said.... > 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). Note the last part about "below some ... point".
As I recall, I thought we were supporting this multiple versions of "Apache, MySQL, PHP" at the level they assert to be compatible. > Considering the fact that Trolltech is orders of magnitude better at > maintaining compatibility than either of those above. That's good to hear, but that doesn't address the question. The question is "Does Trolltech respect upwards compatibility below the Major release level (ie: QT3 -> QT4)?". If the answer is "yes", then Whoopie! If the answer is "no", we need to look further into this. - jek3
