On 05/08/2016 01:10 AM, Thiago Macieira wrote: > On sábado, 7 de maio de 2016 23:25:16 PDT Roland Winklmeier wrote: >> From wiki pages (https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_5.6_Tools_and_Versions and >> https://wiki.qt.io/Building_Qt_5_from_Git), I understood that, ICU is >> only required for QtWebkit. I also learned that the ICU version shipped >> in Qt 5.6.0 is 56.1. >> >> However, I found the following facts a bit inconsistent: >> * Windows is actually shipping 54.1 instead of 56.1. Was the upgrade >> missed or is this on purpose? To me it is a minor issue, but I'm curious. > > Looks like a mistake.
Do you want me to raise a bug report? >> Now my question: >> Is ICU mandatory for all platforms or maybe only for Linux? Ideally I >> could just skip shipping it in my installer, since I'm using a custom >> Qt5 build on my Debian server (I did not yet manage to use the official >> installer on a headless server with an install script). But I want to be >> sure, what features I'm loosing before any decision. ? > > It's mandatory for none. You can choose if you build from sources, but note > that the POSIX fallback for Unix systems is of much lower quality. > > The choices made for the binary builds are just that: choices. > Thanks a lot. Now it is much clearer to me. I'll follow the official release binaries choice and link my custom Linux build against ICU. Cheers Roland _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
