Re: [Development] Qt5 combined source package - Perl dependency

2013-04-26 Thread Knoll Lars
On 4/26/13 3:00 AM, "Anttila Janne" wrote: >Hi, > >As you probably are aware, there has been a long thread on interest >list about Qt dependency bloat. One of the most commented problems >has been Perl dependency, especially on Windows. > >We have had similar feedback on commercial support chan

Re: [Development] Qt5 combined source package - Perl dependency

2013-04-26 Thread Thiago Macieira
On sexta-feira, 26 de abril de 2013 10.00.42, Anttila Janne wrote: > Hi, > > As you probably are aware, there has been a long thread on interest > list about Qt dependency bloat. One of the most commented problems > has been Perl dependency, especially on Windows. > > We have had similar feedback

Re: [Development] Qt5 combined source package - Perl dependency

2013-04-26 Thread Turunen Tuukka
Exactly. No-one benefits in making things hard for the users. I hope we can fix this for 5.1 and more for the subsequent releases. Even though there is an increasing number of pre-build binaries it should be easy and fast to build Qt when needed, as well as to choose which parts are taken in.

Re: [Development] Qt5 combined source package - Perl dependency

2013-04-26 Thread BRM
Having participated in the discussion on the Interests list... Aside from what Andre' said... > From: Joerg Bornemann >To: Friedemann Kleint >Cc: development@qt-project.org >Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 11:35 AM >Subject: Re: [Development] Qt5 combined source package - Perl dependency >On 2

Re: [Development] Qt5 combined source package - Perl dependency

2013-04-26 Thread André Pönitz
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 05:35:01PM +0200, Joerg Bornemann wrote: > I personally don't see where exactly the point of pain is... other than > "something I was used to changed". Downloading and installing Perl on > Windows is really straight-forward. The point of pain is that something that used t

Re: [Development] Qt5 combined source package - Perl dependency

2013-04-26 Thread André Pönitz
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 04:57:23PM +0200, Friedemann Kleint wrote: > >One of the most commented problems has been Perl dependency, > >especially on Windows. > > I have to admit I do not really see the point of it as long as QtWebKit > requires Ruby and Python. In my view, requiring a scripting

Re: [Development] Qt5 combined source package - Perl dependency

2013-04-26 Thread Joerg Bornemann
On 26/04/2013 16:57, Friedemann Kleint wrote: > I have to admit I do not really see the point of it as long as QtWebKit > requires Ruby and Python. In my view, requiring a scripting language it > is acceptable as long as a single, unified language is used. Most > projects on Windows require script

Re: [Development] Qt5 combined source package - Perl dependency

2013-04-26 Thread Friedemann Kleint
Hi, >One of the most commented problems has been Perl dependency, especially on Windows. I have to admit I do not really see the point of it as long as QtWebKit requires Ruby and Python. In my view, requiring a scripting language it is acceptable as long as a single, unified language is used.

Re: [Development] Qt5 combined source package - Perl dependency

2013-04-26 Thread Koehne Kai
> -Original Message- > From: development-bounces+kai.koehne=digia@qt-project.org > [mailto:development-bounces+kai.koehne=digia@qt-project.org] On > Behalf Of Anttila Janne > Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 12:01 PM > To: development@qt-project.org > Subject: [Development] Qt5 combined

[Development] Preparing Qt 4.8.5 release

2013-04-26 Thread Salovaara Akseli
Hi, It has been a while from Qt 4.8.4 release and there are quite many commits after v4.8.4 tag. Therefore we are preparing Qt 4.8.5 release and work has been already started. We are aiming to have SHA1 freeze in two weeks from now (10th of May). If you have some changes in Code Review which ar

Re: [Development] Qt5 combined source package - Perl dependency

2013-04-26 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 10:00:42AM +, Anttila Janne wrote: > Qt-Project now provides split source packages, the split packages > do not and should not have syncqt executed. Thus they would make > it possible to cryptographically verify that the sources match > exactly the repository with no mo

[Development] Qt5 combined source package - Perl dependency

2013-04-26 Thread Anttila Janne
Hi, As you probably are aware, there has been a long thread on interest list about Qt dependency bloat. One of the most commented problems has been Perl dependency, especially on Windows. We have had similar feedback on commercial support channels. One quite simple change what we could do alrea