On Sunday 11 January 2015 23:04:38 André Pönitz wrote: > On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 10:24:37PM +0100, Andreas Pakulat wrote: > > Hi Rene, > > > > On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 11:35 AM, René J.V. <rjvber...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > If this principle was in place for Qt 5.2 too, I can thus upgrade my > > > Linux > > > box's Qt 5.2 (Ubuntu 14.04) to Qt 5.3.2 (backported from Ubuntu Vivid > > > Velvet) without breaking the slew of packages that depend on Qt5? > > > > Its been in place since Qt3, ABI breakages only occur between major > > version > > (3->4, 4->5). > > > > Most Linux distro's wouldn't package Qt if they had to recompile all the > > packages that depend on Qt if they switch from x.y to x.y+1. > > Are you saying if distro 'Foo' ships a new version, they won't recompile all > packages?
Some distros do, some don't. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
