On 2015-09-30 09:38, Oliver Eichler wrote: > is that really necessary? I thought the benefit of Linux is to get > updates fast and frequently. I have a certain understanding that it > takes some time for the latest and greatest to hit the binary > distributions. So patching a Qt5.5 feature is kind of ok. But Qt5.3 is > over 1.5 years old. And Qt5.4 roughly a year. > > To be honest I hate #ifdef because the code gets harder to read and to > understand. You can't avoid it completely. Especially for the portable > stuff. But for transient things like library versions I would like to > keep it to a bare minimum. Is there no other way?
I'd like to provide QMapShack updates to Debian stable users too, so they're not forced to compile it themselves and have a newer version available than 0.6.0. Because of the Qt 5.4 requirement for QMapShack 1.3.1, I cannot update the backport and have to leave it at 1.3.0. It will take about two years for the next Debian stable release to be available, which will include Qt 5.4 (and possibly newer) and the QMapShack updates it enables. A strict interpretation of the Basic Rules for Backports [0] I should remove the QMS 1.3.0 backport because it is not in testing, 1.3.1 is, this brings QMS users back to the stone ages version and feature wise so to speak. I won't interpret the backports rules that strictly, because keeping the backport at 1.3.0 is preferable over forcing users back to 0.6.0. Backporting security fixes is complicated by not having the same version in testing, hopefully no security issues will be found in QMS to keep this a theoretical concern. I'm not sure what the Qt 5.4 availability in other distributions is, but everyone still at 5.3 is stuck with QMS 1.3.0 just like Debian stable users. [0] http://backports.debian.org/Contribute/#index7h3 Kind Regards, Bas ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Qlandkartegt-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qlandkartegt-users
