Dotan Cohen wrote: > On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 19:14, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote: >> On 05/01/2012 05:07 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: >>> The guy building the tarball will be including Qt 4.6 in the tarball >>> and linking against that. He is building it now. >> >> erm... that is going to mean that everytime there is an update for >> either QT or anything that it links into or anything that is in a lib >> associated down that chain - the entire stack needs to be rebuilt. Are >> you sure this is a good idea ? > > I'm not sure, but the guy who is maintaining it seems to think so. I > advised him to build for CentOS 6, not 5, but 5 is much more widely > distributed and there are other reasons for staying with CentOS 5, > such as AutoDesk support. I hate having to worry about multiple libraries. And in updates of the std. packages, it can break your specialized one. I would have to recommend to your krista list to build against the library we have now. A question: what new functionality does the newer library provide, noting that it's a subrelease, *not* the next release, and so should only have bug and security fixes? mark