[Merkaartor] Auto-updating merkaartoLinux/OSX sysadmin input requested

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Fri, 8 Oct 2010, Chris Browet wrote:

>       Note, that merkaartor usually can't be build for older distributions, as it always uses fancy new Qt features which aren't available for older systems (and upgrading QT requires a lot of
>       changes).
> 
> Not quite true. As of june 1st, it compiled fine under Qt 4.4.3.
> Although I don't have a Qt 4.4.X anymore, I'll keep Merkaartor compatible if compatibility problems are reported to me (although 3 majors version has passed, now, and 2 majors for all distros).

Which means SUSE 11 is minimum requirement now. Currently BuildService 
only builds suse packages due to compatibility problems where I had no interest 
to fix them in the past. After checking package build I agree, that 
merkaartor requirements are more stable now, which makes packaging easier.

Ciao
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