[Fwbuilder-discussion] qt4 ??

[Bob G. <bo...@rc...>]

I did search the archives and saw only a few references to qt4..

This is my problem:

I was interested in doing a little development with Qt and decided that
qt4 was better than qt3 (bigger number, yes?).

As part of this exercise, I ran into trouble with multiple libraries,
and other strange compile-time errors. I whacked out the qt-3.3 stuff
and proceeded without problems.

--- Then ..

I am running Fedora5 and decided to open a port to try a remote
experiment. It has been awhile since I tried that with my firewall
computer, so I forgot that the native 'Firewall' config with Gnome is
limited to handling only one ethernet interface. Its 'one config fits
all' left me with either open ports, or no connectivity to the other
computers on my internal net.

I was fortunate to find the hand-written firewall script that set things
straight again.

---

This was motivation to go back into fwbuilder documentation and see if
there was a better solution there.

Unfortunately, fwbuilder no longer runs on my system because of the
whacked qt3 libraries.

I downloaded fwbuilder source and tried to compile, but it was always
'reaching out' for those qt3 libraries.

Questions:

1) Is there a fundamental reason (licensing?) for not moving fwbuilder
to qt4?

2) Can I, with minimum header - Makefile tweeks, get the current fwb to
compile using qt4?

3) Will fwbuilder miraculously (you guys..) become compatible with qt4
at some point in the future (like when FC6 comes out in October)?