On Tuesday 20 December 2011 11:18:21 lars.kn...@nokia.com wrote: > On 12/16/11 8:37 PM, "ext David Faure" <david.fa...@kdab.com> wrote: > >On Thursday 15 December 2011 11:21:41 Turunen Tuukka wrote: > >> So now there is total of 108 improvements and bug fixes available in Qt > >> Commercial 4.8.0 that are not part of the LGPL release. > > > >While I understand the reasons, I want to state that this is going to > >make > >support a mess. > > > >Both versions are called 4.8.0, but do not contain the same code. > > > >So when someone says "With Qt-4.8.0 I have the following issue", it will > >never > >be clear which 4.8.0 this is about, we'll have to educate everyone to say > >in > >addition if this is 4.8.0-LGPL or 4.8.0-Commercial. Couldn't the version > >number be different, when the code is different, instead? E.g. 4.8.0c. > >That > >doesn't fit into the numerical QT_VERSION, but at least qmake -query and > >every > >other location which shows a qt version number (packages, qt creator, > >etc.) > >would show clearly 4.8.0c instead of 4.8.0. > > To some extent Linux distributions have always done that as well, and I > still remember something called qt-copy in KDEŠ ;-)
I see no relation at all. qt-copy was for the convenience of kde developers, definitely not for anyone else to build upon. And, there was nobody selling support for it, either. And, there was a #define to distinguish it from upstream qt, allowing ifdefs if necessary. -- David Faure | david.fa...@kdab.com | KDE/Qt Senior Software Engineer KDAB (France) S.A.S., a KDAB Group company Tel. France +33 (0)4 90 84 08 53, Sweden (HQ) +46-563-540090 KDAB - Qt Experts - Platform-independent software solutions _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development