On Tuesday, 13 November 2018 18:43:03 PST Kevin Kofler wrote: > Thiago Macieira wrote: > > But I've just remembered that Designer loads plugins and those are quite > > clearly tied to the Qt version. The file format is backwards compatible > > and has remained so for a few years. It is possible that the plugins > > generate the same XML regardless of version, but I think we shouldn't risk > > it. So yes, Designer should be versioned. > > I think it would be much safer to just version everything. > > Just remember Assistant in Qt 4, where early 4.x releases shipped an > Assistant that was essentially compatible with the Qt 3 version, but it was > later renamed to assistant_adp (and later dropped from the Qt distribution > and shipped as an unmaintained separate legacy tarball) and a new > incompatible Assistant (the QCH one) was introduced.
Ok, so two categories only: 1) applications run by the user (in bin, versioned) 2) applications run only during build (in libexec, unversioned) -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
