[Psi-Devel] Upgraded to Qt 4.4, psi-0.11 now crashes

Olivier Goffart ogoffart at gmail.com
Sun May 11 04:54:50 PDT 2008


Le samedi 10 mai 2008, Justin Karneges a écrit :
> On Saturday 10 May 2008 1:26 am, Kevin Smith wrote:
> > >> With Qt-4.4, Trolltech broke their policy of backwards compatability
> > >> within major releases. Applications, like Psi 0.11, desiged for
> > >> Qt4.0-Qt4.3 may well not work with 4.4. Psi 0.12 will be compatible
> > >> with both Qt-4.0-4.3 and 4.4.
> > >
> > > No, the policy was not broken. Qt 4.4 should be binary compatible with
> > > Qt 4.3 Can you tell what are the  missing symbols?
> >
> > There are no missing symbols, but as the behaviour changed (-1 on
> > selected tabs, for example), it's logically incompatible.
>
> Indeed, there's more to library compatibility than symbols being present.
> Those symbols still have to act in compatible ways.  We will try to make
> Psi 0.12 compatible with Qt 4.2-4.4, but unfortunately Psi 0.11 is broken
> with 4.4 and there's nothing we can do about it. :(
>
> It would be great if Trolltech could release a 4.4.1 with restored
> compatibility.

Just report the problem to qt-bugs at trolltech.com, and it will probably be 
fixed.


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