[Development] Qt Commercial 4.8.0 release delta to LGPL version

[Olivier Goffart]

On Thursday 15 December 2011 11:53:12 sinan.tanilkan at nokia.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thank you for you summary Tuukka.
> 
> We hope to move Qt 4 to Gerrit soon. This should enable faster handling of
> contributions.

Wasn't the policy to first push the code in Qt5, then backport in Qt 4.8?

I also see a lot of commit in Qt 4.8 that are not in Qt5. This is a problem.




> 
> Best regards,
> Sinan Tanilkan
> Mobile Phones Middleware - Integration and Quality Engineering
> http://wikis.in.nokia.com/QtQualityEngineering
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> From: development-bounces+sinan.tanilkan=nokia.com at qt-project.org
> [development-bounces+sinan.tanilkan=nokia.com at qt-project.org] on behalf of
> ext Turunen Tuukka [Tuukka.Turunen at digia.com] Sent: Thursday, December 15,
> 2011 12:21 PM
> To: development at qt-project.org
> Subject: [Development] Qt Commercial 4.8.0 release delta to LGPL version
> 
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Qt 4.8.0 and Qt Commercial 4.8.0 have been released today. I wanted to send
> you e-mail about the delta between these.
> 
> We have worked hard with 4.8 to improve it for desktop and embedded
> platforms according to the needs of commercial licensees. We have fixed a
> lot of bugs and included support to new platforms. While doing these, we
> have made close to 200 contributions in the past few months, but
> unfortunately not all these have yet been merged in to Qt.
> 
> So now there is total of 108 improvements and bug fixes available in Qt
> Commercial 4.8.0 that are not part of the LGPL release. I want to underline
> that this is not the intended way of differentiating our offering. Going
> forward I hope that we can be more aligned. I would like to see most of the
> current delta integrated to Qt by the time of 4.8.1, if it is possible.
> 
> Yours,
> 
> --
> Tuukka Turunen
> Director, Qt Commercial R&D
> Digia Plc
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