On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 12:09:03AM +1200, Christian Gagneraud wrote: > On 31 July 2018 at 23:55, Kai Koehne <kai.koe...@qt.io> wrote: > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Interest <interest-bounces+kai.koehne=qt...@qt-project.org> On Behalf > >> Of Christian Gagneraud > >> [...] > >> >> We used to build Qt-5.6.3 on and for Linux-i386. > >> >> I recently had to downgrade to Qt-5.6.0 [...] > > > >> I don't want to be mean or rude, but honestly i have notice a degradation > >> of > >> patch release management in the recent years... > >> To the point that now the "Qt Maintenance Tool" offers you to install > >> different > >> patch release, like nobody trust they are actually equivalent and ABI > >> backward > >> compatible as they used to be... > > > > Criticizing the MaintenanceTool to (again) provide non-latest patch level > > releases in a thread you started with "I recently had to downgrade to Qt > > 5.6.0' is ... interesting 😉 > > It is indeed! ;) > The core problem, is that you have dropped Linux32 for both open > source and commercial users. > > Unfortunately the code base i'm dealing with cannot run on 64 bits > machine (both runtime and build time). > We need to run Qt 5.6 on: > - Windows/intel 32 bits > - Linux/intel 32 bits > - Linux/arm 32 bits > > We need to build Qt and Qt apps on: > - Windows/intel 32 bits > - Linux/intel 32 bits > > And building Qt for Linux 32 is a real pain.
Can you remind me of an actual problem with that? The machine I am using to write this mail here has a Qt base at cc03bad229 (last September) and Qt Creator at 99e3635ef3c (last week). Linux 32 bit. Andre' _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
