[Interest] Hiding a shared lib? Linux of course.

Guido Seifert wargand at gmx.de
Fri Jul 5 00:03:48 CEST 2013


Yep, I know the pains of the Qt3 -> Qt4 transition. I still had to work with Qt3 programs two years ago. But when it comes to pain... if I may translate a German proverb:
Better an end with pain than pain without end.

Guido

> 
> The Qt 3 to 4 change is what taught us not to break everything. Despite the 
> script, porting code was a painful process. KDE took 3½ years doing it, from 
> the first Qt 4.0 betas in June 2004 to the actual KDE 4.0 release in Jan 2008 
> (requiring Qt 4.3 at the time). We had to support Qt 3 for an awfully long 
> period of time -- 4 years -- after 4.0 was out.


-- 
Guido Seifert <wargand at gmx.de>



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