[SailfishDevel] SDK and Harbour news

[Lorn Potter]

On 21/11/13 10:50 PM, Robin Burchell wrote:
> Hi Artem,
>
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Artem Marchenko
> <artem.marchenko at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks for the update, Lekku
> I, not L :-)
>
>> Will the apps violating these rules, but currently approved or submitted and
>> under QA still work fine for the launch? And will users get proper update
>> notifications when you change package name from e.g. flashlight to
>> com.iamcool.flashlight and update icon to 86x86?
> Any update will trigger an update notification in store as far as I know.
>
>> What about the apps that are to be submitted today-tomorrow? Do you know
>> when this "will be a FAQ" will happen and since when shall it be enforced
>> (rather than just recommended)?
> First draft was written yesterday, it might take a little longer while
> we nail out a few final things. Not too long I'd hope.
>
>> *QML API and Shared libraries*
>> What about standard Qt5 modules such as qt5-qtdeclarative-systeminfo and
>> qt5-qtgraphicaleffects
>> Can I still Require them in .yaml/.spec to guarantee that device will
>> install them or shall we bundle them in manually somehow?
> You will still need to specify your requirements. Note: not everything
> with a "Qt" in the name is necessarily supported. I'll make sure a
> full list will come around the same time as the FAQ/with the FAQ.
>
> In particular, as I understand it, QtSystemInfo is not yet API/ABI
> stable upstream (Lorn, please correct me if I'm wrong...), so we are
> unable to offer support for it at this time.

QtSystemInfo is not yet officially released from upstream, not stable 
and is currently undergoing a change in API. :)

>> Cheers,
>> Artem.
> BR,
> Robin