[Development] Qt 5 beta

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Thu Aug 30 22:20:22 CEST 2012


On quinta-feira, 30 de agosto de 2012 21.10.16, Laszlo Papp wrote:
> > Not being a packager I don't know, but I have a hard time imagining it's
> > harder to change your packaging scripts from Qt4 to Qt5 than from tar.bz2
> > to
> > tar.xz.
> 
> 1) This could be said vice versa, so not fair to say.
> 2) We have had bz2 previously (as well) and we were able to package with
> bz2, so this could potentially be changing for people from what was working.
> 3) Why another change in the first place, if there are no space
> limitations? 

Because LZMA produces smaller files. I'd like to increase adoption of it.

So let me put it this way: upgrade or go back to gzip.

> 4) Just one random example of those: when I mentioned this to
> one of friends today he was asking what xz exactly. That person was aware
> of the other formats. He has also made some packagings already for
> Harmattan, so not quite a newcomer. I know, this could happen vice versa,
> so not fair to say... That is why I think, it is ok to keep both, or the
> more common bz2 format, if we are really short with space.

I disagree.

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