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Re: Bidi support for Linux
> You put a lot on emphasis on the "prediction" that even when QT 3 comes
> out it will take 12-18 months to use it (and similarly for Gtk). Why is
> that? Why can't the current KDE be patched to work with QT-3.0 (instead
> of waiting for some vaporware KDE release), and then some distribution
> (maybe even a special Hebrew distribution) will include this KDE?
>
> In the past, a new release of a library took ages to propegate, until
> everybody compiled it, and worse - recompiled all the stuff in their system
> to use it. But now, with Linux distributions which include everything
> precompiled, you could upgrade your entire system to use QT 3 (or whatever)
> in 10 minutes.
>
> P.S. a propos vaporware, where is Redhat 7.1?? I've been hearing rumors
> about it for 3 days, and yesterday a "7.1" directory popped up on Redhat's
> servers (unreadable). But no "respectable" site wrote anythign about this.
> Does anybody know if it's scheduled for today, or what?
1. Redhat 7.1 is available now on the mirrors - even sourceforge.net got it
on:
ftp://ftp.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/redhat/redhat/linux/7.1/en/iso/i386/
2. You cannot put QT 3.0 since it's not backward compatible, nor binary
compatible with QT 2.x, which means a KDE with QT 3 won't run KDE 2.x
applications. The KDE team doesn't want to replace q lib, add a backward
version QT lib (2.x) - and the same thing goes for GNOME.
Hetz
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