[scribus] Best distro for 1.3.5

[Matt Gushee]

John Culleton wrote:
> I am in a never ending chase trying to update my Qt 4 to keep up with 
> 1.3.5 svn on my Slackware system. Is there a distro out there, stable 
> or unstable, that updates Qt as often as Scribus 1.3.5.?  I jump 
> through all the requisite hoops but the cmake can't find the latest 
> Qt 4.4.0 I just installed.   I built C-C-T-F-Q a while back but can't 
> replicate my success. 
> 
> So what distro do the Scribus software writers use?

I don't know which distro the Scribus developers use, but you might 
consider Arch Linux. Not sure exactly how often Qt is updated, but 
everything in the system is upgraded quite frequently. The philosophy is 
to always use the latest stable version of everything (the definition of 
"stable" apparently bends a bit for widely used libraries).

So I currently have Qt 4.4.0 installed and had no trouble building 
Scribus 1.3.5 (Qt is in the main Arch repo, while Scribus-svn is an 
unsupported source package in the community repo known as AUR). If I 
upgraded Qt today I would have 4.4.2. This is my first time building 
Scribus-svn, but I have been using Arch for about 3 years, done dozens 
of full system upgrades, and only had serious issues once (when there 
was a major change to the boot process, and that was mainly because I 
didn't read the instructions). In installing or upgrading individual 
packages, source or binary, supported or unsupported, I've had far fewer 
problems than I had with Red Hat or Debian, which I used for about 8 
years combined before switching to Arch.

So check it out: http://www.archlinux.org/

-- 
Matt Gushee