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Thiago Macieira thiago at kde.org
Mon Aug 16 23:52:52 CEST 2010


On Monday 16. August 2010 22.39.55 Arnold Krille wrote:
> As far as I understand Trolltech/Nokia, you are wrong. One of their main 
> selling points is binary compatibility within a major series in the upward 
> direction. Linking an app with qt3.0 and then updating the libs to qt3.5
> will  not result in a broken app.
> The opposite way on the other hand is not promised to work. Linking an app
> to  qt3.5 and then trying to run it against qt3.1 will most probably not
> work, even if you didn't explicitly use new functions/classes.
> And my practical experience tells me I am right;-)

That's correct, except that there's no Qt 3.5.

The last version was 3.3.8b.

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