[Qt-creator] Creator and Qt < 4.7

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 09:04:34AM +0100, ext Enrico Ros wrote:
> I'm developing a plugin for Creator, rebasing every day over creator's 
> "master" branch. Since distributions are starting to support Qt 4.6 (I'm 
> shipping on gentoo and ubuntu 10.4), mandating 4.7 means that I have to stop 
> tracking master since when distros will catch up on the (not yet released) 
> 4.7.
> 
just clone it like you do with creator and make a release build (if disk
space is a concern for you). upgrade the next time creator compilation
breaks because of apparently missing new functionality. really no big
deal ...

> Is 4.7 a strict requirement, apart from being better of course, or can
> somehow be avoided (maybe with #ifdefs in strategic places)?
> 
we had that so far, obviously. #ifdefs are always a maintenance burden.