Re: [Wireshark-dev] Qt availability changes

2020-01-30 Thread Roland Knall
> Am 30.01.2020 um 15:56 schrieb João Valverde > : > >  > >> On 28/01/20 13:30, Roland Knall wrote: >> A good overview by one of the KDE developers, focussing - obviously - on the >> Linux side: >> >> https://tsdgeos.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-qt-company-is-stopping-qt-lts.html >> >> Long

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Qt availability changes

2020-01-30 Thread João Valverde
On 27/01/20 20:05, Gerald Combs wrote: The Qt Company recently announced upcoming changes in the distribution of their official binaries: https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-offering-changes-2020 https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2020-January/thread.html#38316 Two of the changes

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Qt availability changes

2020-01-30 Thread João Valverde
On 28/01/20 13:30, Roland Knall wrote: A good overview by one of the KDE developers, focussing - obviously - on the Linux side: https://tsdgeos.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-qt-company-is-stopping-qt-lts.html Long story short - we may have to host our own version at some point. I think this

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Qt availability changes

2020-01-28 Thread Roland Knall
A good overview by one of the KDE developers, focussing - obviously - on the Linux side: https://tsdgeos.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-qt-company-is-stopping-qt-lts.html Long story short - we may have to host our own version at some point. Am Di., 28. Jan. 2020 um 12:44 Uhr schrieb Roland Knall : >

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Qt availability changes

2020-01-28 Thread Roland Knall
Am Di., 28. Jan. 2020 um 01:43 Uhr schrieb Peter Wu : > > > I think it is worth emphasizing that it only affects users who build or > develop Wireshark from source. The final Wireshark installer will still > bundle the Qt bits. > We need to get those bundles from somewhere, meaning we either

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Qt availability changes

2020-01-28 Thread Guy Harris
On Jan 28, 2020, at 2:24 AM, Graham Bloice wrote: > As noted somewhere in the linked discussion, I suspect that the end result > will be projects caching a "suitable" version for a while and then > periodically, e.g. major releases, updating to the current latest. It's too > much work to

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Qt availability changes

2020-01-28 Thread Graham Bloice
On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 at 00:43, Peter Wu wrote: > > > > > As folks noted in the thread you linked to, how will CI systems handle > > > this? > > Good question... I have automated Qt installation for Travis CI with > >

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Qt availability changes

2020-01-27 Thread Peter Wu
On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 09:53:11PM +0100, Roland Knall wrote: > Well it took me a while to read through all the comments. Indeed, some highlights: * A Qt community contributor suggests potential adverse effects for the Qt Company such as forking and less contributions.

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Qt availability changes

2020-01-27 Thread Guy Harris
On Jan 27, 2020, at 12:53 PM, Roland Knall wrote: > Finally, I would not call it a day yet. Qt has become a very strategic > project for a lot of people. I could imagine, that the outcry over this > decision will be as big as the one 2015 over the first attempt to close down > the installer.

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Qt availability changes

2020-01-27 Thread Roland Knall
Well it took me a while to read through all the comments. First of all, I understand their - Qt's - reasoning. It makes sense from a business side of things, and they are getting rather big. Developing that framework is not the easiest task and they need money (sounds too familiar). This sucks,

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Qt availability changes

2020-01-27 Thread Graham Bloice
On Mon, 27 Jan 2020 at 20:06, Gerald Combs wrote: > The Qt Company recently announced upcoming changes in the distribution of > their official binaries: > > https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-offering-changes-2020 > > https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2020-January/thread.html#38316 > >

[Wireshark-dev] Qt availability changes

2020-01-27 Thread Gerald Combs
The Qt Company recently announced upcoming changes in the distribution of their official binaries: https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-offering-changes-2020 https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2020-January/thread.html#38316 Two of the changes adversely affect how we develop and build