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 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

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
ies. But that is not the case for many projects >> out there. > >> BR, >> Maurice >> >> >> >>> -----Original Message- >>> From: Development On Behalf Of >>> BogDan Vatra via Development >>> Sent: Thursday, April 18, 20

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

Re: [Development] Qt online SDK security problems

2019-04-18 Thread Khuram Ali via Development
ch to a newer version. >>> This is (IIRC) why the installer switched to this approach. >>> >>> I can see your point as well, especially when your project is flexible >>> enough to update dependencies. But that is not the case for many projects >>> out there. >&

Re: [Development] Qt online SDK security problems

2019-04-18 Thread Bernhard Lindner
> I can see your point as well, especially when your project is flexible > > enough to update dependencies. But that is not the case for many projects > > out there. > > > > BR, > > Maurice > > > > > > > > > -Original Message- > > > From:

Re: [Development] Qt online SDK security problems

2019-04-18 Thread Bogdan Vatra via Development
; > > -Original Message- > > From: Development On Behalf Of > > BogDan Vatra via Development > > Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2019 9:24 AM > > To: development@qt-project.org > > Subject: [Development] Qt online SDK security problems > > > > Hi,

[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