[SailfishDevel] qca-qt5 for Jolla phone

[Denis Zalevskiy]

On 12/19/2013 11:12 AM, Andrey Kozhevnikov wrote:
> qt5 have good QCryptographicHash classes. Why you need QCA?

Shortly, QCA is much more than hashing functions. Also QCA can use 
different well-known existing engines - this is important for 
cryptography framework. Also, quite many application are using it.

- denis

> On 19.12.2013 13:37, Denis Zalevskiy wrote:
>> Hi Ruediger,
>>
>> On 12/17/2013 11:16 PM, Ruediger Gad wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> as far as I can see, qca-qt5 is not available in the pre-installed
>>> repositories of the Jolla phone.
>>> So, my questions are:
>>> - Is it planned to make it available (qca-qt5 is already in
>>> nemo:devel:mw on Mer OBS.)?
>> If this package is in the Nemo already, it should be available soon 
>> (some upcoming winter update) in Sailfish with some upcoming update. 
>> Ask lbt on irc at freenode #mer about approx. estimations.
>>> - What would be the process to make it available and how long would it
>>> roughly take?
>>>    I filed the PR on github that added the packaging for the actual qt5
>>> version and would be willing to help here if I can.
>>> - Are there alternatives to adding qca-qt5 to the pre-installed
>>> repositories in order to allow apps on Harbour to use it as dependency?
>> Now you can just package it with your application. Sometime later it 
>> has a big chance to appear in the list of officially supported 
>> packages if API will be considered stable enough to be supported.
>>
>> - denis
>>
>>> Background:
>>> My app MeePasswords requires qca-qt5.
>>> So far, I succeeded in building it in the SDK and successfully ran 
>>> it on
>>> my device (I manually added the qca-qt5 dependency via zypper.).
>>> The biggest problem right now is the qca-qt5 dependency.
>>>
>>> I'd be very happy if it was possible to get MeePasswords into the 
>>> Harbour.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks and best regards,
>>>
>>> Ruediger
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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