Re: [Development] Qt 5 and old versions of XCB

2012-03-17 Thread Thiago Macieira
On domingo, 18 de março de 2012 12.03.17, craig.sc...@csiro.au wrote: > > I'm sorry, but we can't keep supporting very old systems. By the time of > > the release, OpenSUSE 11.1 will be 18 months old or older. > > Wow. are you suggesting that we're only interested in ensuring Qt5 runs > on sys

Re: [Development] Qt 5 and old versions of XCB

2012-03-17 Thread Craig.Scott
On 18/03/2012, at 12:03 PM, Robin Burchell wrote: > On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 1:43 AM, wrote: >> I asked about xcb on the LSB mailing list and early responses suggest that >> although xcb has been mentioned there before, it doesn't sound like it's >> progressed much beyond that. Dropping suppor

Re: [Development] Qt 5 and old versions of XCB

2012-03-17 Thread Robin Burchell
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 2:03 AM, wrote: > Wow. are you suggesting that we're only interested in ensuring Qt5 runs > on systems that 18 months old or newer? That's going to make a lot of > enemies. opensuse 11.1 was released in 2008. that's a lot more than 18 months. ___

Re: [Development] Qt 5 and old versions of XCB

2012-03-17 Thread Robin Burchell
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 1:43 AM, wrote: > I asked about xcb on the LSB mailing list and early responses suggest that > although xcb has been mentioned there before, it doesn't sound like it's > progressed much beyond that. Dropping support for xlib and relying on xcb > would thus make Qt5 a no

Re: [Development] Qt 5 and old versions of XCB

2012-03-17 Thread Craig.Scott
On 18/03/2012, at 11:53 AM, Thiago Macieira wrote: > On domingo, 18 de março de 2012 11.43.02, craig.sc...@csiro.au wrote: >> That's fine when you are only building an application to run on your >> machine, but for people who want to distribute Qt5 apps, this would be an >> undesirable solution.

Re: [Development] Qt 5 and old versions of XCB

2012-03-17 Thread Thiago Macieira
On domingo, 18 de março de 2012 11.43.02, craig.sc...@csiro.au wrote: > That's fine when you are only building an application to run on your > machine, but for people who want to distribute Qt5 apps, this would be an > undesirable solution. You'd end up having to ship the xcb libraries as well > as

Re: [Development] Qt 5 and old versions of XCB

2012-03-17 Thread Craig.Scott
On 18/03/2012, at 9:58 AM, Pier Luigi wrote: > 2012/3/17 Bradley Smith : >> >>> The workaround for systems that don't meet the minimum requirements is to >>> upgrade. Running brand, new and bleeding edge Qt 5 on an old system is not >>> a >>> target for us. Simply upgrade -- at the very least th

Re: [Development] The qtbase CI should run the qtdeclarative tests

2012-03-17 Thread Donald Carr
Golf clap I relish modularity, but construing a hard dependency as a soft dependency is inviting a world of hurt for the CI underpant gnomes (/me makes a note to buy Kent flowers next time he is in Oslo) On Mar 16, 2012 3:14 PM, wrote: > Hi, > Again the qtdeclarative CI has been blocked an enti

Re: [Development] Qt 5 and old versions of XCB

2012-03-17 Thread Pier Luigi
2012/3/17 Bradley Smith : > >> The workaround for systems that don't meet the minimum requirements is to >> upgrade. Running brand, new and bleeding edge Qt 5 on an old system is not >> a >> target for us. Simply upgrade -- at the very least the requirements. > > Is it possible to upgrade just XCB?

Re: [Development] Qt 5 and old versions of XCB

2012-03-17 Thread Bradley Smith
> The workaround for systems that don't meet the minimum requirements is to > upgrade. Running brand, new and bleeding edge Qt 5 on an old system is not > a > target for us. Simply upgrade -- at the very least the requirements. > Is it possible to upgrade just XCB? Upgrading the OS from OpenSU

Re: [Development] Documentation snapshots available on doc-snapshot.qt-project.org

2012-03-17 Thread Girish Ramakrishnan
Add ons. Girish 2012/3/16 : > Right, sorry for the confusion. > > > Should I list Qt OpenGL under Essentials or Add-ons? > > > Quim > > > On 3/16/12 7:01 PM Storm-Olsen Marius (Nokia-MP/Austin) wrote: > > Wohaa! I don't think i said to purge the QtOpenGL docs, those are still > valid. It's only