[Interest] Qt creator - Minimum Qt version?

Konstantin Tokarev annulen at yandex.ru
Fri Nov 25 11:57:07 CET 2011



25.11.2011, 14:50, "Konstantin Tokarev" <annulen at yandex.ru>:
> 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...

Sorry, haven't noticed remarks about Windows

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Regards,
Konstantin



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