On Friday 05 October 2012 09:14:08 Turunen Tuukka wrote: > The idea was to release as quickly as possible a version with correct > copyrights. And since the MinGW fix has been requested to include that as > well. > > We have a large number of platforms to test in, many more than the CI > systems currently verifies. So we have to have these tests run. > > Furthermore, 4.8 is a platform that provides binary installers done in both > old and new way, so we need to test all these, in all platforms etc. So it > just takes some time to see that everything is correct. > > 4.8 is already quite mature platform, and we really do not want to cause > regressions. Even if it sometimes means it takes a bit of time to make the > complete release. > > The security fix is already available as a patch, this is just a question of > making the complete release with all installers etc. > > Hopefully this clarifies the rationale and why I originally wanted to > proceed with 4.8.3-1, then concentrate more on 5.0 releases and do 4.8.4 > later this year. As said we will not make 4.8.3-1 release through the Qt > Project, but create the proper 4.8.4 according to the defined release > process. >
Just to add some noise: There was a Qt 3.3.8b (also for copyright change) So to be consistant, it should be Qt 4.8.3b The "-1" notation is typically used for package revision in linux distributions. (NB: I'd personally be in favor of calling it 4.8.4) -- Olivier Woboq - Qt services and support - http://woboq.com _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
