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

[From: tero.kojo at nokia.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: maemo-developers-bounces at maemo.org [mailto:maemo-developers-
> bounces at maemo.org] On Behalf Of ext Niels Breet
> Sent: 24 February, 2010 14:19
> To: Attila Csipa
> Cc: maemo-developers at maemo.org
> Subject: Re: Maemo 5 PR1.2 and Extras
> 
> > On Wednesday 24 February 2010 12:21:45 Niels Breet wrote:
> >

> > What happens to apps (especially those with Qt dependencies)
> _currently_
> > in Extras, i.e., how will they get to the fremantle1.2 Extras repo ?
> >
> The Qt apps are currently blocked from being promoted to prevent
> issues.
> The fremantle-1.2 repository will probably need to be 'legacy' clean.
> Qt
> 4.5.3 is not available in Extras and will probably not be available on
> any
> repository enabled by default on the device. This means that
> applications
> depending on this, will not work.
> 
> Those applications need actual changes to work with Qt4.6 iirc.

Some may and some don't. Some Qt apps compiled against 4.5 will work with 4.6 without any issues. I do not know which part of the ABI has changed, so no idea what would break. Sorry, no statistics on this one, just some small personal tests.

To be safe it would make sense to recompile the Qt apps with the 1.2 SDK when letting them to Fremantle-1.2. 

Tero

> >
> > Regards,
> > Attila
> >
> 
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> Niels Breet
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