On 6/7/12 5:50 PM, "ext Quim Gil" <[email protected]> wrote:
>Hi, we want to have the Qt 5 Beta announcement page ready days before >the actual release in order to avoid unnecessary last minute rush. > >This time it will be a static HTML page in order to offer a nicer layout >than the wiki pages. The drawback is that you will need access to one of >the editors (Alexandra, Carol, MariusG, myself) if you need last minute >changes. > >The idea is to work on the content of >http://qt-project.org/wiki/Qt-5-Alpha and update wherever is needed. >Lars & co, can you help answering these questions? Don't worry about >final wording as long as you give us the relevant info: > > >- What have been the relevant activities between the alpha release and >now? We are looking for things to highlight in the summary as well as >new details in the What's New section. Apart from lots and lots of bug fixes here are the features I know of in qtbase: * Quite a bit more work on the reference platforms. Qt Creator compiles and runs rather well now against Qt 5 * A few cleanups of new API (renaming some methods, etc) * Qt now expects source code to be encoded in UTF-8. * Merged the new QUrl implementation * Unify data structure behind QVector, QString and QByteArray * New metaobject revision, better API for QmetaObject and more perform an access to QObject's meta data * Upgrade to Unicode 6.1 * New plugin system is a must now for Qt 5 apps * Refactoring and cleanups in Qt Print Support module * Preliminary ANGLE support on Windows (to avoid the problem of bad GL drivers) * Enable C++11 support by default on compilers supporting it * Disable exceptions on many Qt modules that don't require it (saving space/size) * started modularizing our documentation (no real effect to end user, but should help improve the doc quality over time) * Fixed a lot of pending TODO items for Qt 5 * Improvements to QNX support * QHash hash key randomization (potential security issue) * Moved QIcon back to QtGui QtQml and QtQuick didn't really get any new features, but a huge amount of bug fixes, memory usage improvements and optimizations. Most other modules got minor improvements and bug fixes. > >- I guess there are no changes in the Essentials modules? >http://qt-project.org/wiki/Qt-Essentials-Modules No, the list is the same as before. > >- Are we including Add-on modules in the release? If so, will they be >part of the same binary as Essentials or shipped separately? I think there will be some add-ons in the binary package, but I'd need to check details. > >- Any new modules that weren't released in the alpha? Hopefully QtWebKit on windows. > >- The announcement assumes that there is a page with the binaries for >download and any relevant instructions. Who is working on that page and >can you share the URL? Simon, can you fill this in, please? > >- Any changes to the What's New section? >http://qt-project.org/wiki/Qt-5-Alpha#33871b6190a8d5adbe8b15282054766c >Otherwise we will keep it as is. See above. > >- Any changes in the Known Issues section? Otherwise we will keep what >we have. Would need to go through it in detail. Something for next week. > >- New screenshots, videos, demos, examples etc are welcome. Otherwise we >will rely on what we had for the alpha. > >Anything else? Just tell us. :) Let's make sure we get the message right, that Qt 5 is actually rather usable for people coming from Qt 4.x.Some talking points we should cover: * The porting effort should be minor in most cases. Can we maybe get some case studies here? - Qt Creator compiles against Qt 4.x and Qt 5 out of a single code base * QWidgets work and are supported, but not actively developed further * Qt Quick messaging * Qt Quick Desktop components should be mentioned as ongoing work to make Qt Quick a full solution for desktop OSes Cheers, Lars _______________________________________________ Releasing mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/releasing
