On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:32 PM, Oswald Buddenhagen
<oswald.buddenha...@nokia.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 08:24:22PM +0200, ext Robin Burchell wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:15 PM, Oswald Buddenhagen 
>> <oswald.buddenha...@nokia.com> wrote:
>> > i made an attempt to give the digia group on gerrit the right to create
>> > the branch 4.7-digia
>>
>> why not just put it in 4.7, so they're one and the same,
>>
> because they *aren't* the same. the digia patches are not
> community-approved by the respective domain experts. the qt project
> cannot simply accept this, be if for trademark reasons.

yup, and while that's a bad situation, if you leave them in a branch
instead of (somehow) encouraging them to merge backwards, you're only
going to encourage that split to stay that way. people (including
distros) will have no choice but to use the digia version. it's not
helping.
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