[Development] Qt 5 and old versions of XCB

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Mon Mar 19 10:35:09 CET 2012


On segunda-feira, 19 de março de 2012 01.56.24, Giuseppe D'Angelo wrote:
> 2012/3/19 Bradley Smith <bsmith at baysmith.com>:
> >> "What is the minimum version of XCB required for Qt 5?"
> >> 
> >> It appears that libxcb-1.5 and xcb-proto-1.6 are required. These releases
> >> were announced Dec 3 2009 and Dec 2 2009 respectively.
> >> 
> >> Does anyone have a way to determine how wide spread libxcb >= 1.5 has
> >> become in the last 15 months?
> > 
> > Not 15 months, 27 months.
> > 
> > Does anyone have a way to determine how wide spread libxcb >= 1.5 has
> > become in the last 27 months?
> 
> Debian Squeeze (last stable) and Ubuntu Lucid (last LTS) both have xcb >=
> 1.5.
> 
> http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=libxcb1
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=libxcb1

Usually, the rule of thumb is that "if Debian stable has it, then everyone of 
note has it".

That of course doesn't include really-really-long term releases like RHEL4.

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