El jueves, 9 de mayo de 2019 20:20:41 -03 Hamish Moffatt escribió: > On 9/5/19 6:04 pm, Shawn Rutledge wrote: > > Of course on Linux there are usually distro packages so it’s already > > easy (as long as you don’t mind them often being a bit outdated: shame > > on distros who still didn’t upgrade to 5.12 yet). And macOS has brew. > > Actually, I'd turn this around and say shame on the Qt project for not > publishing packages, at least for the major distributions. > > It's Debian's policy to publish stable releases which don't change > except for security and other essential updates. There is no argument > for updating Qt in a stable release. > > If Qt wants to get updates out to developers on Debian and Ubuntu it can > publish its own packages. > > > There are third party packages available for Ubuntu which I have rebuilt > for my Debian systems here, as I needed a newer version than 5.7 on my > Debian stable systems.
With my Debian maintainer hat on: thanks for this. But I also have to say that we (Debian) currently lack certain infrastructure that would allow us to provide semi-official packages, like PPAs. It is normally not to difficult to backport Qt (except form buster to stretch, due to some changes done to allow [cross] building starting from system packages). If Debian had PPA-like infra I would certainly try to get a more or less decent backport around (would break KDE and other stuff though, due to API breakage in private API). And why not a multiver-se like PPA for Debian's (not yet existant) PPAs? That and man power/time, of course. It's always about free time :-/ [cross] <http://perezmeyer.blogspot.com/2018/11/cross-compiling-cmake-based-projects.html> -- La ciencia sin la religión es renga, la religión sin la ciencia es ciega. Albert Einstein Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer http://perezmeyer.com.ar/ http://perezmeyer.blogspot.com/
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