Hi Thaigo, On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 8:28 PM, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macie...@intel.com>wrote:
> On sexta-feira, 14 de junho de 2013 12.53.25, Abhijit Potnis wrote: > > Hello, > > > > As Qt 4.8 does support Platform Abstraction, is it possible to run Qt 4.8 > > on Wayland straight away. > > I made some progress over a year ago in backporting some of the changes > from > Qt 5 to Qt 4.8. But this was prior to Wayland 1.0 and there were some > changes > I never got in. > > You can see my branch here: > http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/thiago-intels-qt/commits/4.8-qpa-wayland > > > If not then we will have to back-port some of the features of Platform > > Abstraction and more from 5.0 to 4.8, would that be possible ? > > > > If so what would be the best point to start off with ? > > Probably my branch above. I haven't built it in 15 months, so no > warranties. > > But please note that QPA in Qt 4.8 is limited by itself. It was missing > some > functionality that a proper Wayland application would need. I really > recommend > you consider Qt 5. > > Since QPA was new in Qt 4.8, it means you must have started this project > only > recently. Since you're asking now, 6 months after the Qt 5.0 release (and > 5.1 > is approaching), can we ask why the interest? > Thanks for the info. This helps a lot. I shall have a look into you branch, and try building the same as the first step. :). I know Qt5.0 is already old ! It's my employers client who has this requirement for Qt 4.8 ! > > -- > Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com > Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center > > _______________________________________________ > wayland-devel mailing list > wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel > >
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