On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Osztrogonac Csaba <o...@inf.u-szeged.hu> wrote: > Hi, > > Jocelyn Turcotte írta: > >> My quick opinion on it is that we could: >> - Switch the official bots to Qt5 as soon as possible to aid the Qt5 beta > > > I don't understand what do you mean about "switch". We still have many Qt5 > bots: > - Qt Linux 64-bit Release (Perf) == Qt5-WK1 builder and perf tester bot - > http://build.webkit.org > - Qt Linux 64-bit Release (WebKit2 Perf) == Qt5-WK2 builder and perf tester > bot - http://build.webkit.org > - x86-32 Linux Qt Release - Qt5-WebKit1 == Qt5-WK1 builder, JSC/layout/API > tester bot - http://build.webkit.sed.hu > - x86-64 Linux Qt Release WebKit2 (Amazon EC2) == Qt5-WK2 builder, > JSC/layout/API tester bot - http://build.webkit.sed.hu > - x86-32 Linux Qt Release WebKit2 == Qt5-WK2 builder, JSC/layout/API tester > bot - http://build.webkit.sed.hu > - ARMv7 Linux Qt5 Release (Build) == Qt5-WK2 builder > - Qt WK2 EWS == Qt5-WK2 Early Warning System bot - http://queues.webkit.org/ > > But we don't have buildbot for Windows. Because now QtWebKit isn't buildable > on Windows at all. > (We are working on it, see the mail thread about it.) Until we don't have > buildable QtWebKit > on Windows with Qt5, the Qt 4.8 Windows builder guarantees that we catch new > build regressions > come from WebKit trunk. Maybe only a Qt5 Mac and a Qt5 debug bots are > missing a little bit. > > >> - Branch Qt4 at the same time as Qt5 (two different branches would be >> better I guess) > > > I think it would be profitable for Qt4-QtWebKit and Qt5-QtWebKit release > team. In this case they don't have to duplicate cherry-picking most of > security fixes, bug fixes. > > >> - Remove the Qt4 code from trunk (that might be broken already since the >> bots won't be running) once we stabilized the Qt5 branch > > Of course when we don't run Qt4 buildbots, the code might be broken. :) > The question is if/until when do we want to maintain Qt4 code paths. > This question should be answered by the project owners/maintainers. > > I'm only the admin of most of the bots, so it's all the same for me which Qt > version runs on the bots. :) > > I can say only some contra against removing Qt 4 support too early: > - Now automatic Qt5 update on the bots isn't solved yet. Because gitorious > isn't > so stable now. I'm working on hard to make the Qt5 build script support > stable > mirrors and adding a new "update-qt5-to-the-latest-pinned-qt5-hash" > buildstep > before compiling. I think it will be fixed in 1-2 weeks. > - Windows build doesn't work with Qt5 now. With dropping Qt 4 support, > there won't be buildbot to catch new build regression on Windows. > - Mac, SH4, MIPS bots are out of my scope. I don't know anything > if they are ready or not to migrating to Qt5. Boston? Recife? Holger? :)
I don't have the time to update the SHA key every week but if we stick with the beta, then RC, then release, I don't see any problem of the bot switching to Qt5 :). I'll wait the go flag and I will migrate it. > > br, > Ossy > > > >> On Wed, 6 Jun 2012 09:37:14 +0200 >> ext Allan Sandfeld Jensen <k...@carewolf.com> wrote: >> >>> On Wednesday 06 June 2012, simon.hausm...@nokia.com wrote: >>>> >>>> Hm, okay, maybe we can improve the timing :) >>>> >>>> What would be the advantage of waiting until Qt 5.0 is released? What >>>> would >>>> be different at that point? >>>> >>>> >>> By branching of the same version as Qt 5.0 it will hopefully benifit from >>> the stabilization up to Qt 5.0, plus it means we can hopefully keep the >>> QtWebKit for Qt 4.x version close to the branch used for Qt 5.0, which means >>> we can possible merge similar patches, etc. >>> >>> From an communication POV it is also simpler to explain that this fork >>> will provide the features available in QtWebKit for Qt 5.0 to Qt 4.x (except >>> WebKit2 of course). >>> >>> >>> `Allan > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-qt mailing list > webkit-qt@lists.webkit.org > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-qt -- Alexis Menard (darktears) Software Engineer openBossa @ INdT - Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia _______________________________________________ webkit-qt mailing list webkit-qt@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-qt
