[Qt-interest] [OT] RE: Operating system support of the "latest versions" of Qt Modules.

[Atlant Schmidt]

Thiago:

> The documentation is frozen with the release

  That seems to me like a "dodge" of an answer. The web
  isn't the tarball and there's no reason they have to
  be "pixel perfect" representations of each other.

  But even if you feel strongly that the files should be
  identical, there's still a solution: Replace all of the
  real 3.x files with "redirect" pages that say something
  like

     "You have attempted to access an *OBSOLETE*
     version of this file/FAQ/whatever. To go to
     the latest version, click "here". To actually
     access this obsolete version, click "here"
     instead."


  Right now, it takes work to avoid the 3.x stuff when
  Googling and it's well within your power as the webmasters
  to make this situation much better. The situation today is
  unacceptable and I know I've been burned (more than once,
  and even once right here in public on this list) by acci-
  dentally referring to the V3.x documentation.

                            Atlant


-----Original Message-----
From: qt-interest-bounces at trolltech.com [mailto:qt-interest-bounces at trolltech.com] On Behalf Of Thiago Macieira
Sent: Friday, November 26, 2010 07:59
To: qt-interest at trolltech.com
Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] [OT] RE: Operating system support of the "latest versions" of Qt Modules.

Em Sexta-feira, 26 de Novembro de 2010, às 12:43:16, Anisha Kaul escreveu:
> > Which is a good thing :) It is very easy to install older Qt versions,
> > back to Qt 3.x
> > ...
> > or some people here still ask questions on this list about Qt 3.x
> > (maybe they also don't know that Qt is already at 4.7, because they
> > googled for it and took the first link ;)
> >
> > But maybe your question becomes a FAQ as well and the number one question
> > would then be "So which FAQ am I reading here?" ;)
>
> Was this a pun directed to me ;) Anyway that made me laugh :)
> Jokes apart, I seriously think that the FAQs of the older versions of Qt
> should EXPLICITLY notify the end users about the availability of the new
> versions of Qt. Had I not mailed this mailing list I would have still been
> sitting in darkness!

The documentation is frozen with the release. What you see on the website is
the documentation that was shipped with that particular version. We can't
change what is in the tarballs, so we don't change the website either.

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