[SailfishDevel] Qt 5.2 in devel

[Tone Kastlunger]

Hi,
great job!
It would be amazing to get a (link to a ) list of features coming with this
release of qt to jolla.

Best,
tortoisedoc


On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 7:48 PM, Gunnar Sletta <gunnar.sletta at jolla.com>
wrote:

>
> On 21 Jun 2014, at 16:21, Alejandro Exojo <suy at badopi.org> wrote:
>
> > El Wednesday 18 June 2014, Robin Burchell escribió:
> >> Sorry folks. This wasn’t intended to be posted here, but, have a slight
> >> visual on what’s going on behind the curtain anyway. :)
> >
> > I hope everything went well and nobody phoned you in the middle of
> sleep. :)
> >
> >> tl;dr: Qt 5.2 upgrade is on the way in the nearish (but not immediate)
> >> future
> >
> > How come that you are not skipping 5.2 and going straight to 5.3?
>
> Hi Alejandro,
>
> Moving to a new Qt release takes quite a bit of effort and our 5.2 branch
> is getting into a pretty good shape. Jumping to 5.3 would mean a lot of
> additional sanity testing and based on the outcome of that, adapting to
> changes and bug fixing. It would delay the update by an unknown amount of
> weeks or months. The 5.2 branch already contains stuff which we really want
> in the platform (like the improvements to QtQuick) and we want those sooner
> rather than later. We'll get around to 5.3 and also 5.4 eventually, though.
> Just not right now :)
>
> > IIRC, you
> > had some patches on top of 5.1, so I understand that rebasing them is a
> lot of
> > work. Skipping a release might be harder now, but maybe is worth it
> later on.
>
> Very true, an we've taken steps to get away from that situation. For our
> Qt 5.2 branch, we still have a lot of patches, but all of these patches
> were upstreamed to 5.3 and 5.4 before they were back-ported into our 5.2
> branch, so we're converging rather than diverging.
>
> > I'm pretty sure you know what you are doing, but I fear you might end up
> with
> > non-upstreamed things and end up with the problem the SDK has, that is
> some
> > releases behind what Qt Creator is upstream, for example.
>
> It is a valid point, and do we want to stay fairly close to the latest
> released Qt, preferably without patches. But since we also have a platform
> on top of Qt, there is some latency in getting there.
>
> Hope that answers your question.
>
> cheers,
> Gunnar
>
> >
> > Cheers.
> >
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