[Paraview-developers] Requiring Qt 4.6 for ParaView 3.8

[Sebastien BARRE]

At 2/7/2010 03:08 PM, burlen wrote:

>It's currently the case that with qt anything less than 4.5 pv fails 
>to compile (even if you remove the version test in cmakelists) 
>because pv uses some qt classes that were only added to 4.5. In my 
>opinion it would be a burden to pv users to get too far ahead of the 
>various KDE supported distro's packages. eg. Kubuntu 9.10 reports qt 
>version 4.5.2. KUbuntu 8.04.4 LTS reports qt version 4.3.4.

+1 here, I just upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10, I was really glad I didn't 
have to build Qt 4.6 on my slow machine.

> From the point of view of making it easy to build paraview on 
> various contemporary distros would it make any sense at all to 
> perhaps maintain backward compatibility for some small window of time?

I think so too; Qt is a big chunk to compile on your own.