On Tuesday, 16 November 2021 04:39:59 PST Marius Kittler wrote: > > Indeed. The proposal was how old that build can be. Can you count on the > > host Linux distribution being up-to-date enough to have N-1 or even N-3? > > Because you can't, then the point is moot. > > I am *not* worried about the host distribution being up-to-date enough. It > is actually quite the opposite. The normal distribution's host Qt build is > likely updated a little bit sooner than the cross-builds. On the other hand > I can easily postpone updating the cross-builds until the normal host > distribution's Qt build is updated. The delay for updating the cross-builds > won't be long, though. So if a host build can be used with a cross-build of > the previous Qt 6 release that's completely sufficient.
Please note I was thinking of a "you" in the persona of a regular developer using the Linux distribution, not the persona of a Linux distribution packager. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel DPG Cloud Engineering _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
