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

[From: Dave Neary]

Hi,

Sascha Mäkelä wrote:
> I was under the impression that for many Qt apps a simple repackaging
> will do the trick. If this is the case, would it not make sense to make
> those updates available? After all, before the updates are released to
> Extras, many users are going to have Qt apps that won't work on their
> N900. Surely we want to correct that as soon as possible. And what about
> existing Qt 4.5 based apps in Extras? Should the be demoted when PR1.2
> is released?

I know of at least one case where Maemo-specific changes were made in Qt
4.5 for Maemo and are no longer available in Qt 4.6 (related to Hildon
integration). So it is entirely possible that some apps which previously
compiled will not do so after the upgrade.

Cheers,
Dave.



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