KDE and qt4-mac

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Mar 16, 2009, at 17:46, Marcus Calhoun-Lopez wrote:

> I would like to upgrade qt4-mac to version 4.5.0
> (making it the same as qt4-mac-devel).

That sounds like a good idea to me.

> It was indicated in another thread that this might not be entirely
> compatible with KDE
> (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.macports.devel/7504).
> I did not want to break all of KDE without some warning.
>
> If KDE and Qt 4.5 do not work well together, perhaps we can create a
> qt4-kde port which stays at version 4.4.

I agree that's the right way to continue to make Qt 4.4 available, if  
necessary.

I propose the port be called qt44-mac.


> Because qt4-mac and qt4-x11 are careful not to conflict, it should be
> straightforward to create yet another Qt distribution.
>
> Version 4.5 allows 64-bit universal builds,
> which to me is a compelling reason to upgrade.