[bt-devel] Using QSharedPointer instead of boost pointer

Eeli Kaikkonen eekaikko at mail.student.oulu.fi
Sat Apr 25 13:07:21 MST 2009


Martin Gruner wrote:
> Eeli,
> 
> thanks for the suggestion.
> 
> The boost dependency is removed.
> 

>> It looks like we could use this instead of the boost::scoped_ptr. At
>> least for Windows it would make things easier by reducing dependencies.
>> But it requires Qt 4.5 - 4.4 is not enough. This could be done also with
>> #ifdefs, depending on the Qt version, so that if Qt >= 4.5 boost is not
>> needed.


I'm not sure if it was a good idea to just remove it. Qt 4.5 is not yet 
part of all distros, which means that BibleTime can't be packaged for them.

Fedora Core 10: Qt 4.4.x
OpenSuSe 11.1: Qt 4.4.x
Mandriva 2009: Qt 4.4.x

--Eeli Kaikkonen



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