[Interest] Qt creator - Minimum Qt version?

[Konstantin Tokarev]

25.11.2011, 14:46, "Bo Thorsen" <bo at fioniasoftware.dk>:
> Den 25-11-2011 11:35, Thiago Macieira skrev:
>
>>  On Friday, 25 de November de 2011 06:31:37 Syam Krishnan wrote:
>>>  <small><small><big>Indeed. But I cannot update the system version of
>>>  Qt 4.5. So I&aps;d have to recompile new Qt into some other
>>>  directory, and have that version used when building Qt
>>>  Creator. Won&aps;t that be equally ugly/difficult/time-consuming?<br>
>>  Compared to what? To using an older Creator?
>>
>>  No and no.
>>
>>  It will be more time consuming to find the older Qt Creator that works with the
>>  Qt that you already have. And it will be uglier because you'll have less
>>  features, using an obsolete version of Qt Creator.
>>
>>  I really see *no* reason why you'd want to use an old Qt Creator. Just compile
>>  a new Qt in a separate installation.
>
> IMHO this is exactly why it's a mistake to package the full SDK in one
> big blob. At least on Windows, on Linux I tend to use system packages
> when I can.
>
> It would be really nice if (again, this probably only makes sense on
> Windows) I we could have a "download other Qt version" button in QtC. A
> bit like the "get new stuff" buttons you see in more and more places.

And then Syam would try to download several Qt binary installations (which would 
be incompatible with RHEL 5 as well), and would finally have to build Qt himself...



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Regards,
Konstantin