[Paraview] ParaView and QT

[Berk Geveci]

I agree with Michael that it is not a good idea to bundle Qt with
ParaView. I was not happy with bundling Tcl/Tk despite the fact that
they are pretty small compared to Qt. I think we will try to keep up
with Qt better in the future. We may officially support a specific
version but we will try new version as they come out and make sure
that they compile at least.

-berk

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 5:05 AM, Michael Wild <themiwi at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Or, as you're using Debian, you can use pinning to prevent apt from updating
> Qt. See e.g. [1] or ask google.
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> I would hate a bundled Qt because it is a large beast and if everybody
> starts doing it we end up in Windows-Land where every program comes with the
> full set of libraries it depends on, cluttering the system until it's so
> broken only a clean install can solve the problems...
>
> HTH
>
> Michael
>
> [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html
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> On 1Jun, 2008, at 2:42, Berk Geveci wrote:
>
>> It is not easy to keep up with Trolltech guys, they keep busy :-) I
>> recommend downloading your own version of Qt, building it and
>> installing it somewhere out of the system path (I use /opt/qt-4.X.X).
>> We will start supporting Qt 4.4 after we release 3.4.
>> Also, it sounds like the problem you are running into is with CMake
>> parsing the output of qmake. Did you test with cvs CMake?
>>
>> -berk
>>
>> On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 8:29 PM, Andrew Maclean
>> <andrew.amaclean at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> This is really frustrating as my debian machines all upgraded to QT
>>> 4.4 a few weeks ago so the ParaView builds are now broken. Even
>>> editing the CMakeLists.txt files does not work.
>>>
>>> Why is it that everytime Trolltech changes QT it seems to require a
>>> major amount of work?
>>>
>>> If it is not possible to keep up with the changes coming through from
>>> TrollTech, is it possible to do what you used to do with the older
>>> version of ParaView and have a special version of QT that is bundled
>>> with it?
>>>
>>> You say ParaView only works with a particular version of QT so why not
>>> bundle it?
>>>
>>> Sorry if I sound cranky - I am getting frustrated!
>>>
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