Re: [oi-dev] QT5.8 alpha1 testing build

2016-09-21 Thread Мартин Бохниг via oi-dev
Hello Aurélien, thanks for your understanding and for your qualified response. Well, from vbox's viewpoint Qt.n (with n ==4.x or 5.x or z element N) is just a single of many related aspects. It just has to perform its job. On the other hand I certainly understand that Qt by itself is an amazing

Re: [oi-dev] QT5.8 alpha1 testing build

2016-09-21 Thread Aurélien Larcher
Hello Martin, > I'm by NO means intending to unintentionally diminish your qt5 work. > All I'm saying is: Qt5.8 is simply too new in every aspect. > It needs to be migrated in carefully and in paralel to good old stable 4.8 No offense taken ;) I agree with you that we should stick with Qt4 for no

Re: [oi-dev] QT5.8 alpha1 testing build

2016-09-20 Thread Мартин Бохниг via oi-dev
Hi Aurélien, I'm by NO means intending to unintentionally diminish your qt5 work. All I'm saying is: Qt5.8 is simply too new in every aspect. It needs to be migrated in carefully and in paralel to good old stable 4.8 As promised I now wanted to port vbox5 back to Qt5 and run a test compile ag

Re: [oi-dev] QT5.8 alpha1 testing build

2016-09-19 Thread Franklin
Nice!!! I will test it. Em 19/09/2016 05:41, "Aurélien Larcher" escreveu: > Hi, > if there is any interest, snapshot from Sept 15 2016: > > qt5.8-OI201604-20160915.tar.bz2 (91MB) @ http://ovh.to/w5Vjj1D > > It contains 32bit and 64bit builds installed in /usr/lib/qt/5.8. > Best regards > > Aurel

Re: [oi-dev] QT5.8 alpha1 testing build

2016-09-19 Thread Мартин Бохниг via oi-dev
Hi to France! Ok, sounds great, tnx. It is essential that the two (or more) can peacefully co-exist in /usr/lib/qt/ for a migration period or perhaps forever.. But I must check again if the symlinks to /usr/bin (and /usr/include I believe to recall) are part of the same ips package as the bins a

Re: [oi-dev] QT5.8 alpha1 testing build

2016-09-19 Thread Aurélien Larcher
Hi Martin, > > That's why qt5 is really not urgent. > qt4 works fine for VirtualBox5.1.x Yes I agree that you Qt4 build is the way to go for the moment. The Qt5 builds are for the long term, I would like to get some testing done to check if we need to fix some things and can upstream some patches

Re: [oi-dev] QT5.8 alpha1 testing build

2016-09-19 Thread Мартин Бохниг via oi-dev
Hi Aurelien, my primary focus was to get virtualbox5.1.x finished first. And I still have some server stuff on the roadmap (webservices [for it gsoap]) and VirtualBox vnc support. That's why qt5 is really not urgent. qt4 works fine for VirtualBox5.1.x To change Qt and even to replace Qt4.8 tota

[oi-dev] QT5.8 alpha1 testing build

2016-09-19 Thread Aurélien Larcher
Hi, if there is any interest, snapshot from Sept 15 2016: qt5.8-OI201604-20160915.tar.bz2 (91MB) @ http://ovh.to/w5Vjj1D It contains 32bit and 64bit builds installed in /usr/lib/qt/5.8. Best regards Aurelien -- --- Praise the Caffeine embeddings ___