Re: HEADS UP: KDE/Qt update intentions in Fedora 13 (RFC)

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



Peter Robinson (pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx) said: 
> > Nokia managed to upgrade Qt to 4.7 in their Maemo distribution and it got
> > pushed to all devices without causing any problems so far. Their standards for
> > avoiding churn are pretty high and their update scheme is extremely
> > conservative for stable releases. Nevertheless they updated Qt. But they have
> > a pretty good reason for doing that (aligning with future versions of MeeGo
> > and Symbian). So what does a F13 user gain from an upgrade? Is it worth the
> > risks?
> 
> QT isn't the default toolkit in Maemo and it was only introduced at
> all in the PR1.2 release which only came out around 3-4 months ago so
> its not a core part of their UI experience on maemo.
> 
> So that's not really a good argument for upgrading it in F-13.

Also, I'd assume that Maemo explictily ships/supports a much smaller set
of software than Fedora, so they can explicitly list all their dependencies
that may need fixed.

Bill
-- 
devel mailing list
devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel


[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
[Index of Archives]     [Fedora Announce]     [Fedora Kernel]     [Fedora Testing]     [Fedora Formulas]     [Fedora PHP Devel]     [Kernel Development]     [Fedora Legacy]     [Fedora Maintainers]     [Fedora Desktop]     [PAM]     [Red Hat Development]     [Gimp]     [Yosemite News]
  Powered by Linux