I agreed with Simon's initial pragmatic heads up which was that: linux* blocks in existing qmake profile files would probably want be the primary code path you would want to be followed in/under Android, in the initial compilation/porting to Android. It wasn't an attempt at bike shedding.
The Qt mkspecs have goofy names; All the linux-foo mkspecs are more indicative of the toolchain/userspace in use than the kernel. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bionic_(software) Let me paraphrase since I don't know shit: "Bionic has several major Linux-specific features and development continues independent of other code bases" So I would kind of expect any android specific code/implementations to most resemble Linux, rather than the Windows/Mac/symbian implementations. If Android adopts the Linux naming scheme, the Linux impls will be grabbed at the baseline, which I assume would be desired default behavior unless you explicitly specialize off of this. If you people know better, and god I hope you do, then merrily override this. Just my 2p, Donald On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Keith Gardner <kgard...@zebraimaging.com> wrote: > [snip] > According to: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system) > "Android is a Linux-based operating system ..." > but on the same page says: > "Android does not have a native X Window System by default nor does it > support the full set of standard GNU libraries, and this makes it difficult > to port existing Linux applications or libraries to Android." > > > According to Qt's wiki page "Licensing Talk about Mobile Platforms," Android > is defined as the following: > > "The Google Android operating system is based on Embedded Linux. Therefore it > is permitted as an application deployment platform, as long as the developer > has an "Embedded Linux" license." > > http://qt-project.org/wiki/Licensing-talk-about-mobile-platforms > > To point out, this decision has implications on licensing Qt. > > Keith > _______________________________________________ > Development mailing list > Development@qt-project.org > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development