Qt 4.7 live ebuilds
16 Mar 10 at 19:12 | 
gentoo, overlay, qt
Recently a new branch was formed in the Qt source repository for the upcoming Qt 4.7 release. The release is expected “mid 2010”. It will carry some exciting new technologies, especially the Qt Declarative UI, using QML (the new Qt Meta-object Language) and Qt Quick (Qt User Interface Creation Kit), as well as some improvements in the multimedia module.
If you want to test the “live” code of this new version in development on Gentoo, we now have ebuilds available in our qting-edge overlay. (Just keep in mind Qt 4.7 is currently incompatible with KDE4, if you happen to use that.) And we also have updated ebuilds for the upcoming Qt Creator 2.0 version.
I’m curious what new Qt application development this will spur.
J.O. Aho on 17 Mar 10 at 05:47:
I’m worried about the “Network Bearer Management”, without any facts, it feels like my qt4/kde4 looses network connectivity a lot easier than qt3/kde3 did. I can understand it’s usefulness on Nokias primary products, but not for other products like Desktop computers, where these new network features seems to be able to more harm than good when a desktop starts to do it all itself instead of letting applications and services to take care things and does it better than the DE.
Ben on 18 Mar 10 at 12:13:
We applied a fix, and it is now reported to work with KDE4.