Hi, great job! It would be amazing to get a (link to a ) list of features coming with this release of qt to jolla.
Best, tortoisedoc On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 7:48 PM, Gunnar Sletta <gunnar.sle...@jolla.com> wrote: > > On 21 Jun 2014, at 16:21, Alejandro Exojo <s...@badopi.org> wrote: > > > El Wednesday 18 June 2014, Robin Burchell escribió: > >> Sorry folks. This wasn’t intended to be posted here, but, have a slight > >> visual on what’s going on behind the curtain anyway. :) > > > > I hope everything went well and nobody phoned you in the middle of > sleep. :) > > > >> tl;dr: Qt 5.2 upgrade is on the way in the nearish (but not immediate) > >> future > > > > How come that you are not skipping 5.2 and going straight to 5.3? > > Hi Alejandro, > > Moving to a new Qt release takes quite a bit of effort and our 5.2 branch > is getting into a pretty good shape. Jumping to 5.3 would mean a lot of > additional sanity testing and based on the outcome of that, adapting to > changes and bug fixing. It would delay the update by an unknown amount of > weeks or months. The 5.2 branch already contains stuff which we really want > in the platform (like the improvements to QtQuick) and we want those sooner > rather than later. We'll get around to 5.3 and also 5.4 eventually, though. > Just not right now :) > > > IIRC, you > > had some patches on top of 5.1, so I understand that rebasing them is a > lot of > > work. Skipping a release might be harder now, but maybe is worth it > later on. > > Very true, an we've taken steps to get away from that situation. For our > Qt 5.2 branch, we still have a lot of patches, but all of these patches > were upstreamed to 5.3 and 5.4 before they were back-ported into our 5.2 > branch, so we're converging rather than diverging. > > > I'm pretty sure you know what you are doing, but I fear you might end up > with > > non-upstreamed things and end up with the problem the SDK has, that is > some > > releases behind what Qt Creator is upstream, for example. > > It is a valid point, and do we want to stay fairly close to the latest > released Qt, preferably without patches. But since we also have a platform > on top of Qt, there is some latency in getting there. > > Hope that answers your question. > > cheers, > Gunnar > > > > > Cheers. > > > > -- > > Alex (a.k.a. suy) | GPG ID 0x0B8B0BC2 > > http://barnacity.net/ | http://disperso.net > > _______________________________________________ > > SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list > > To unsubscribe, please send a mail to > devel-unsubscr...@lists.sailfishos.org > > _______________________________________________ > SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list > To unsubscribe, please send a mail to > devel-unsubscr...@lists.sailfishos.org >
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