On 2/15/13 1:06 PM, "Stephen Kelly" <stephen.ke...@kdab.com> wrote:
>On Friday, February 15, 2013 11:52:40 Paul Olav Tvete wrote: >> On Friday 15 February 2013 11:43:10 Stephen Kelly wrote: >> > On Friday, February 15, 2013 12:28:32 Timo Jyrinki wrote: >> > > At least qtpim, qtsystems, qtconnectivity, qtfeedback >> > > and qtwayland will follow later, and I'll be filing change proposals >> > > for them at that time as part of the process. >> > >> > I don't know why you're packaging those. >> > >> > You understand that they are not 'part of Qt 5', right? >> > >> > And you understand that they are not stable in any way and their API >>will >> > likely change, and they will not be part of Qt 5.1, and they may >>never be >> > part of a Qt release? >> >> AFAIK, QtWayland is planned to be part of Qt 5.1. (Parts of the module >>will >> be marked as experimental.) > >It doesn't seem to be in the list Lars posted a few days ago. If you want >it >in 5.1, you should maybe raise that. > >Regarding the packages, my concern is labelling and (packagers and users >of >the packages) mistakenly thinking that something is 'part of Qt 5'. The >ones >which are not part of Qt 5 should not imply that they are. > >If the qtbase tarball is made into the libqtbase5 package, the qtpim >tarball >should not be made into libqtpim5, and any qt5 metapackage should not >depend >on the qtpim package. > >The reason is that those modules are not 'part of Qt 5'. They are no more >a >part of Qt than qlogger, to take a random playground example. The repos >can't >be renamed to have 'playground' in the name, but those modules are not >really >any different to playground modules. Having the packages on Ubuntu (or any other distribution) is not per se a bad thing. It turns into a bad thing only if these packages are not labelled as experimental/unstable by some means. So I'd like to ask all packagers that package up these to make sure they are marked accordingly. These packages are very likely to change in a binary incompatible way going forward and no guarantees are given for them. Cheers, Lars _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
