[maemo-developers] QtMobility 1.2 release/reorg in Extras

[From: Attila Csipa]

On 16-Nov-11 12:22, Thomas Perl wrote:
> 2011/11/16 Attila Csipa<maemo at csipa.in.rs>:
>> Just to have it here, too: I submitted a brand spanking new version
>> of libqtm-12 to extras (1.2.0+git20111104-0nd~fremantle5, in
>> practice this is almost 1.2.1). Now, this is a completely differently
>> packaged
>> libqtm-12 as the previous one, so I fully expect some breakage
>> (reports of it welcome).
> Thanks for keeping things sane in the Maemo world :) So, does this
> still need to use addImportPath and addPluginPath as described on the
> following wiki page?
>
> http://www.developer.nokia.com/Community/Wiki/Latest_Qt_and_Qt_mobility_evaluation_on_Maemo
>
> Is there any way to make this even more seamless, so that developers
> targetting Harmattan primarily can easily "backport" their Qt Mobility
> 1.2-using apps to Maemo 5 without having to add all these specialities
> (which they might not even know about if they don't come from a Maemo
> background).

Yes, it still needs those as those paths are hard-coded in Qt, and we 
can't (well, shouldn't) overlap the mobility 1.0.2 plugins. Now, there 
is an alternative, specifying the paths through envvars, but that means 
that again the .desktop file would need to be changed, so back to square 
one...

Best regards,
Attila Csipa