[maemo-developers] Non-experimental QT versioning in Autobuilder (was: QT Packages, Repositories and PR1.2)

[From: Robin Burchell]

On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Javier S. Pedro <maemo at javispedro.com> wrote:
> 3. Qt Desktop guarantees that an application built under Qt 4.5 headers
> is binary compatible with Qt 4.6 libs. I'd like to know if we can guarantee
> that an application built under Qt 4.6 headers but using no Qt 4.5 introduced
> APIs would work under Qt 4.5 libs.

As far as I'm aware, from dim recollections of when I did digging into
this some time ago.. Qt 4.5/4.6 on Maemo are *not* compatible, as 4.5
wasn't a finalised API, and things changed as a result.

4.6 and upwards should be OK in this regard though.

>
> Javier.


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