Re: [Fwbuilder-discussion] qt4 ??

[<va...@vk...>]

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

qt4 is not backwards compatible with qt3 and is substantially  
different. The reason fwbuilder does not use it yet is that it is one  
or another kind of deal, that is, once it is converted to qt4 , it  
wont work on systems where only qt3 is installed. Besides, it takes  
time to migrate.


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

no

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

it will, at some point, but not very soon. But one can install both  
qt3 and qt4 on the same machine and I expect all major distribution  
to ship qt3 for a long time even after they start shipping qt4 as  
well, so this should not be a big problem.

--vk


On Sep 22, 2006, at 6:06 AM, Bob Gustafson wrote:

> 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)?
>
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