Hello, On Wednesday 24 of February 2010, Dave Neary wrote: > Sascha Mäkelä wrote: > > I was under the impression that for many Qt apps a simple repackaging > > will do the trick. If this is the case, would it not make sense to make > > those updates available? After all, before the updates are released to > > Extras, many users are going to have Qt apps that won't work on their > > N900. Surely we want to correct that as soon as possible. And what about > > existing Qt 4.5 based apps in Extras? Should the be demoted when PR1.2 > > is released? > > I know of at least one case where Maemo-specific changes were made in Qt > 4.5 for Maemo and are no longer available in Qt 4.6 (related to Hildon > integration). So it is entirely possible that some apps which previously > compiled will not do so after the upgrade.
Is this a library-only issue or a system issue? i.e. is the problem in the new qt library or (let's say) in the capabilities of the new system's components (e.g. removed dbus interfaces). If this is a library-only issue, then there is no reason (except from disk space, but /opt should be a viable solution) why you could not have the newer versions of "problematic" libraries coexist with their old versions. For example, one could have both libqt4-core and libqt4-6-core. Old apps will still be linked against libqt4-core while new apps will be linked against libqt4-6-core. Then, at some point at the future (PR1.3 ?) you could completely remove those old libraries. ... then again I do not have much experience on doing such things. _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
