[maemo-developers] Maemo 5 PR1.2 and Extras

[From: Niels Breet]

> hi,
>
> Niels Breet wrote:
>
>> Maemo 5 PR1.2 seems to be a release with some large changes which are
>> not backwards compatible with previous releases. Most visible change
>> will be the inclusion of Qt4.6, but there will be some other smaller
>> changes.
>
> When you say "not backwards compatible", does that mean that
> applications built with 1.0 or 1.1 will not work on 1.2?

That would be forward compatible in my book ;)

> Or is it ABI
> compatible, but adds new interfaces, so that applications built with 1.2
> won't necessarily work on 1.1 or 1.0 (which is a different & less serious
> issue in that if you don't use the new interfaces your application should
> still work unchanged on the older releases)?

Applications built on PR1.2 won't work on older versions. There are
exceptions, some applications might work, but those make this very
complicated.

>
> Cheers,
> Dave.
>
>
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