Re: [Development] Qt Static Package

2019-04-18 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Friday, 19 April 2019 08:11:41 +08 Carlos Enrique Pérez Sánchez wrote: > ``` > ./configure -prefix "/somePath/Qt512Static" -static -release -opensource > -confirm-license -qt-zlib -qt-pcre -qt-libpng -qt-libjpeg -fontconfig > -qt-xcb -opengl desktop -sql-sqlite -make libs -make tools -nomake exa

Re: [Development] Qt Static Package

2019-04-18 Thread Carlos Enrique Pérez Sánchez
Alexander Nassian: > There are many ways that are much better and do not have the problems > static linking involves. Many ways much better? Static linking is the recommended approach on Linux. And the people from the company uses static linking to build some Qt tools for linux (I have already c

Re: [Development] Qt online SDK security problems

2019-04-18 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
El jueves, 18 de abril de 2019 14:13:47 -03 Stottlemyer, Brett (B.S.) escribió: [snip] > However, why are patch releases considered a new component instead of an > update? Why do you need to "add a new component" from the installer to get > 5.12.3 if you are on 5.12.2? If 5.12 were treated as a

Re: [Development] Qt online SDK security problems

2019-04-18 Thread Stottlemyer, Brett (B.S.)
On 4/18/19, 5:51 AM, "Development on behalf of André Pönitz" wrote: There is no latest *and* safest version of any non-trivial code base that's under active feature development no matter what Google, Microsoft, Apple, ("long time ago" Nokia) say. ... When you mix featur

Re: [Development] Qt 6 Planning: Consideration of dropping support for UWP applications

2019-04-18 Thread Pier Luigi Fiorini
Does this affect shipping Qt apps in the store? I'm not a Windows expert but as far as I remember only UWP apps are supposed to go there, but I can be wrong. Il giorno gio 18 apr 2019 alle ore 14:50 Oliver Wolff ha scritto: > Hi, > > as you might have heard, we are currently in Qt 6's planning p

Re: [Development] Qt online SDK security problems

2019-04-18 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Thursday, 18 April 2019 17:31:57 +08 Khuram Ali via Development wrote: > I agree. Why not offer a patch for the bug fixes, instead of a new release > which needs to be installed separately. The patch is available for download from the Git repository. After you apply it, re-run configure and ma

[Development] Qt 6 Planning: Consideration of dropping support for UWP applications

2019-04-18 Thread Oliver Wolff
Hi, as you might have heard, we are currently in Qt 6's planning phase and thus checking things that have to be done to make Qt even better. Of course we also want to use this opportuniy to drop support for platforms that are no longer relevant in Qt's new environment. One of these platforms is

Re: [Development] Qt online SDK security problems

2019-04-18 Thread André Pönitz
On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 10:24:24AM +0300, BogDan Vatra via Development wrote: > [...] > As I commented in > https://blog.qt.io/blog/2019/04/11/updated-qt-installer-released/, > as a Qt maintainer, I wonder quite often, if it's worth to spend > time to fix bugs that will go in revision/micro

Re: [Development] Qt online SDK security problems

2019-04-18 Thread Bogdan Vatra via Development
În ziua de joi, 18 aprilie 2019, la 13:54:15 EEST, André Pönitz a scris: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 10:24:24AM +0300, BogDan Vatra via Development > > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Long time ago the Qt online SDK used to help the users to use the > > latest and the safest Qt version all the time. >

Re: [Development] Qt online SDK security problems

2019-04-18 Thread Eike Ziller
> On 18. Apr 2019, at 10:37, BogDan Vatra via Development > wrote: > > Hi, > > As I said, they still have the possibility to install a specific Qt version > and stick with it. The installer will not force them to use the latest > version! If some companies prefer to use outdated software wh

Re: [Development] Qt online SDK security problems

2019-04-18 Thread André Pönitz
On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 10:24:24AM +0300, BogDan Vatra via Development wrote: > Hi, > > Long time ago the Qt online SDK used to help the users to use the > latest and the safest Qt version all the time. There is no latest *and* safest version of any non-trivial code base that's under active f

[Development] Qt 5.9.8 released

2019-04-18 Thread Jani Heikkinen
Hi, Qt 5.9.8 is released today, see https://blog.qt.io/blog/2019/04/18/qt-5-9-8-released/ Big thanks to everyone involved! br, Jani Heikkinen Release Manager ___ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo

Re: [Development] Qt online SDK security problems

2019-04-18 Thread Khuram Ali via Development
I agree. Why not offer a patch for the bug fixes, instead of a new release which needs to be installed separately. Regards, Khuram Ali Sent from my iPhone > On 18. Apr 2019, at 11:20, Bernhard Lindner > wrote: > > Actually the Qt update behavior annoys my as well. > > I wish there would be

Re: [Development] Qt online SDK security problems

2019-04-18 Thread Bernhard Lindner
Actually the Qt update behavior annoys my as well. I wish there would be two checkbox options in the maintenance tool: "Install new bug fix versions automatically" "Install new minor versions automatically" This is reasonable, isn't it? -- Best Regards Bernhard Lindner > > As I said, t

Re: [Development] Qt online SDK security problems

2019-04-18 Thread Bogdan Vatra via Development
Hi, As I said, they still have the possibility to install a specific Qt version and stick with it. The installer will not force them to use the latest version! If some companies prefer to use outdated software which might have security issues is their choice, what I'm asking is for an easy way

[Development] Qt online SDK security problems

2019-04-18 Thread BogDan Vatra via Development
Hi, Long time ago the Qt online SDK used to help the users to use the latest and the safest Qt version all the time. Sadly that was changed, IMHO without too much thinking, and now a lot of users (I'm one of them) are stucked with outdated versions. A few days ago I installed 5.12.2 and today