Re: Are we out of work next month?

Christian Ehrlicher wrote:
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> Peter Kümmel schrieb:
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>>ANSWER (from the lyx-devel list):
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>>Angus Leeming wrote:
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>>>>I understood that Qt 4 will require changes to user code, no? LyX
>>>>1.3.6 , therefore, won't use it. LyX 1.4 is in feature freeze, so I
>>>>guess that it won't use it either. Looks like you'll be having
>>>>considerable usage for a while yet.
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>>Andre Poenitz wrote:
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>>>'Excessive changes' would be a bit of an understatement. It took my
>>>about 30% of the original development time to port some Qt 3.3
>>>application prototype to Qt 4 beta...
>>>[On the pro side, Qt 4 is more fun to work with than 3.x ...]
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>>>>LyX 1.3.6 , therefore, won't use it. LyX 1.4 is in feature freeze, so
>>>>I guess that it won't use it either. Looks like you'll be having
>>>>considerable usage for a while yet.
>>
>>>Qt 4 is no go for LyX 1.4 as far as I am concerned...
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>>
>>BUT
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>>Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
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>>>We will probably have to tweak LyX 1.4 to work (in qt3 compatibility
>>>mode) with it at some point.
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> I don't think that there will be much progress after 4.0 release. I'll
> maybe only port some really needed code back to 3.3 (if this is
> possible) and try to get 4.0 compile with msvc & borland. There wasn't
> much response on our binary 3.3 relases and also noone except me seems
> to have time to fix bugs nor someone will get a working site on
> qtwin.sf.net. It's a little bit disappointing  ...

Well one out of three ain't bad - the qtwin.sf.net site is working now 
and has been for a few weeks :)

Anyway I agree with your mini roadmap - I'll put something up on the 
qtwin site to that effect.

Chris