I realize that current SDK doesn't work on 12.04 but perhaps our app can run mostly "unharmed" on 14.04 version of the SDK+libraries which IIRC are available all the way back to 12.04
Thanks ZK On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 8:04 PM, Sylvain Pineau <[email protected]> wrote: > Running on 12.04 won't be possible as we're now depending on the > Ubuntu.Components 1.1 > which requires not only Qt5 but Qt5.3: See the welcome page of the sdk team > ppa: > > Ubuntu 12.04 LTS has older versions of packages offered in this PPA > (ppa:ubuntu-sdk-team/ppa), > but the SDK support has moved to the new 14.04 LTS release. > > Regarding 14.04, I'm not getting Qt5.3 from any repo/ppa today (I didn't > test from Qt website) > > > On 09/25/2014 07:54 PM, Zygmunt Krynicki wrote: >> >> We should also plan for a transition of checkbox-gui (in the main >> archive) early in the 15.04 series, as soon as the archive opens >> basically. >> >> On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 7:45 PM, Zygmunt Krynicki >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> [snip] >>> 19:40 <@zyga> the biggest thing that didn't go in (and wont anytime >>> soon) is manager.runner patchset >>> 19:40 <@zyga> where you could just manager.runner.run(job, context, ui) >>> 19:41 <@zyga> but that will go away along with the runner actually >>> 19:41 <@zyga> runner will be decomposed to a shell runner + logger and >>> a new class that interprets a job.plugin and converts that to a >>> sequence of commands >>> 19:41 <@zyga> (not shell commands) >>> 19:41 <@zyga> (ui commands) >>> 19:42 <@zyga> I realized that until we can kill checkbox-gui none of >>> this can result in removing code :/ >>> 19:42 <@zyga> so I want to reach parity ASAP and kill checkbox-gui >>> 19:42 <@zyga> one big problem to face is checkbox-gui requirements, >>> aka 14.10+ :/ >>> 19:43 <@zyga> we will have to spend some time to get the app to work with >>> 14.04 >>> 19:43 <@zyga> and put 12.04 SDK apps on life support (unless it can >>> run the same as 14.04 but I haven't checked) >>> >>> So there you have it. It is in my interest to totally kill off >>> checkbox-gui and the resulting piles of code we cannot change without >>> changing C++ and dbus. To make that happen we need to have >>> checkbox-touch (including pyotherside) that works on 14.04, and if >>> possible on 12.04). >>> >>> I'll handle pyotherside. If you love hacking after hours, I'd love to >>> know if we can get checkbox-touch to work on 12.04 + SDK ppa and >>> vanilla 14.04. >>> >>> Thanks >>> ZK > > > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~checkbox-dev > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~checkbox-dev > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~checkbox-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~checkbox-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
