[bt-devel] QT 4.6 dependency and Ubuntu (was: Re: BibleTime 2.7 released )

[Jonathan Marsden]

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Martin,

On 05/19/2010 10:49 PM, Martin Gruner wrote:

> thanks a lot!

You're welcome.

> Now that Ubuntu 10.04 has QT 4.6, do you think it would be ok to
> require it from BT 2.8 on? That would elimiate the dependency to
> boost.

That is fine with me personally, but then I'm always likely to be
running very recent versions of Ubuntu :)  Debian Squeeze is already at
QT 4.6.2, so no worries there.

I think one question is: Will significant numbers of BibleTime users
stick with any earlier versions of Ubuntu, and yet want to run BibleTime
2.8?  If they will, then unless someone officially backports QT 4.6 to
Jaunty or Karmic, so we can create a backported BT 2.8 to go with it,
we'd be risking some user unhappiness for those users by requiring QT 4.6.

I don't know how slow most BibleTime-on-Ubuntu users are to upgrade
their OS.  One way to find out is perhaps to see if we get requests for
packaging BT 2.7 for Hardy/Intrepid/Jaunty :)

I know some Bibledit-on-Ubuntu users stick with LTS releases, so many of
them have been running Hardy (!) until Lucid arrived just recently.  But
that's a different set of users, and since 10.04 is an LTS, they have no
"we only use LTS releases" excuse this time around anyway :)

Overall, I think requiring QT 4.6 would be fine from BT 2.8 onwards, but
if there is a way to ask some "real" BT-on-Ubuntu users too, to make
sure they are mostly going to switch to Lucid or Maverick, that would be
wise.

FYI, without asking for special exceptions, we have until 12 August to
get a "new" BibleTime package officially into Ubuntu 10.10.  That's 12
weeks... theoretically *just* time for BT 2.9, if BT really sticks
exactly to its six week release timetables for BT 2.8 and 2.9 :)  So,
realistically, getting BT 2.8 into Maverick should be simple; getting BT
2.9 in might need some extra last minute effort, or a Feature Freeze
Exception for it, or both.

Jonathan
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