[maemo-developers] Dependency problems after PR 1.2 update to extras builder

[From: Robin Burchell]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 4:12 PM, ianaré sévi <ianare at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the clarifications. I can certainly sympathize with your
> situation, but in the future it might be better to hold off on
> updating the autobuilder until you get a firm release date from Nokia.

Unfortunately, they won't give dates (by their usual policy), so
that's not really going to be possible. Logic would lead to a
conclusion that a final release can't be *too* far off, though, with
the SDK now being publically available.

> The present situation would be much better if we knew how long we had
> to wait until our packages are installable again.

This really is a damned if you do, damned if you don't type situation
that shouldn't be quite so painful in the future.

Things as I understand it:
- Qt 4.5 on Maemo5 had no API/ABI compatibility guarentees.
- Qt 4.6 took liberal advantage of that to change and fix some rather
suboptimal parts.
- This means, if the builder wasn't updated, then there would be other
pain in the form of stuff not working once PR1.2 was released.

To the best of my knowledge (from talking to Qt on Maemo folks), there
is now API/ABI stability, and as such, this shouldn't cause issues
again.

In short, I think the action taken is probably the lesser of the
evils, even if it definitely is far from ideal.

Robin Burchell
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