Re: [Interest] My first 5 years with Qt and 2 suggestions

2019-05-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On 11/5/19 6:49 am, Richard Weickelt wrote: On 10.05.2019 21:13, Thiago Macieira wrote: On Thursday, 9 May 2019 16:58:47 PDT Hamish Moffatt wrote: For my use I rebuilt the Qt packages from https://launchpad.net/~beineri for stretch; they install into /opt rather than replacing the system packag

Re: [Interest] My first 5 years with Qt and 2 suggestions

2019-05-10 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Friday, 10 May 2019 13:49:58 PDT Richard Weickelt wrote: > On 10.05.2019 21:13, Thiago Macieira wrote: > > On Thursday, 9 May 2019 16:58:47 PDT Hamish Moffatt wrote: > >> For my use I rebuilt the Qt packages from https://launchpad.net/~beineri > >> for stretch; they install into /opt rather than

Re: [Interest] My first 5 years with Qt and 2 suggestions

2019-05-10 Thread Richard Weickelt
On 10.05.2019 21:13, Thiago Macieira wrote: > On Thursday, 9 May 2019 16:58:47 PDT Hamish Moffatt wrote: >> For my use I rebuilt the Qt packages from https://launchpad.net/~beineri >> for stretch; they install into /opt rather than replacing the system >> packages, so you don't have the issues with

Re: [Interest] My first 5 years with Qt and 2 suggestions

2019-05-10 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Thursday, 9 May 2019 16:58:47 PDT Hamish Moffatt wrote: > For my use I rebuilt the Qt packages from https://launchpad.net/~beineri > for stretch; they install into /opt rather than replacing the system > packages, so you don't have the issues with Qt and other > reverse-dependencies. I think the

Re: [Interest] My first 5 years with Qt and 2 suggestions

2019-05-10 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Thursday, 9 May 2019 16:20:41 PDT Hamish Moffatt wrote: > 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 easy (as long as you don’t mind them often being a bit outdated: shame 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 y

Re: [Interest] My first 5 years with Qt and 2 suggestions

2019-05-10 Thread Konstantin Shegunov
On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 4:07 PM Shawn Rutledge wrote: > So “stable” just means old in practice, and thus uninteresting for > developers. Old AND stable. There are specific criteria the debian project uses to mark a package as stable. Old may not mean stable, but usually stable means old (althou

Re: [Interest] My first 5 years with Qt and 2 suggestions

2019-05-10 Thread Shawn Rutledge
> On 10 May 2019, at 01:20, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > 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 esse

Re: [Interest] My first 5 years with Qt and 2 suggestions

2019-05-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On 10/5/19 9:42 am, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: 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 ba

Re: [Interest] My first 5 years with Qt and 2 suggestions

2019-05-09 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
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 t

Re: [Interest] My first 5 years with Qt and 2 suggestions

2019-05-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
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 sha

Re: [Interest] My first 5 years with Qt and 2 suggestions

2019-05-09 Thread Jason H
> Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2019 at 8:09 PM > From: "Henry Skoglund" > To: interest@qt-project.org > Subject: [Interest] My first 5 years with Qt and 2 suggestions > > Hi, 5 years ago I started with Qt, it's been a very nice ride, thank > you! Looking forw

Re: [Interest] My first 5 years with Qt and 2 suggestions

2019-05-09 Thread Michael Jackson
Nice to have such a strong supporter in the Qt community, my opinions are in line... On 5/8/19, 8:09 PM, "Interest on behalf of Henry Skoglund" wrote: Hi, 5 years ago I started with Qt, it's been a very nice ride, thank you! Looking forward to the next 5. Got 2 suggestions:

Re: [Interest] My first 5 years with Qt and 2 suggestions

2019-05-09 Thread Tomasz Siekierda
On Thu, 9 May 2019 at 10:06, Shawn Rutledge wrote: > > > On 9 May 2019, at 02:09, Henry Skoglund wrote: > > > > Hi, 5 years ago I started with Qt, it's been a very nice ride, thank > you! Looking forward to the next 5. Got 2 suggestions: > And thanks go to you as well :-) Your blogs and activi

Re: [Interest] My first 5 years with Qt and 2 suggestions

2019-05-09 Thread Shawn Rutledge
> On 9 May 2019, at 02:09, Henry Skoglund wrote: > > Hi, 5 years ago I started with Qt, it's been a very nice ride, thank you! > Looking forward to the next 5. Got 2 suggestions: > > > 1) Make Qt more easily accessable for first timers: > > Why not introduce a Qt Starter Pack? > > I'm think

Re: [Interest] My first 5 years with Qt and 2 suggestions

2019-05-08 Thread Jani Heikkinen
; From: Interest On Behalf Of Henry > Skoglund > Sent: torstai 9. toukokuuta 2019 3.10 > To: interest@qt-project.org > Subject: [Interest] My first 5 years with Qt and 2 suggestions > > Hi, 5 years ago I started with Qt, it's been a very nice ride, thank you! > Lookin

[Interest] My first 5 years with Qt and 2 suggestions

2019-05-08 Thread Henry Skoglund
Hi, 5 years ago I started with Qt, it's been a very nice ride, thank you! Looking forward to the next 5. Got 2 suggestions: 1) Make Qt more easily accessable for first timers: Why not introduce a Qt Starter Pack? I'm thinking of an *extremely* simplified installation tool. For Windows, it co