[Development] Qt Commercial 4.8.0 release delta to LGPL version

[lars.knoll at nokia.com]

On 12/16/11 8:37 PM, "ext David Faure" <david.faure at kdab.com> wrote:

>On Thursday 15 December 2011 11:21:41 Turunen Tuukka wrote:
>> 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.
>
>While I understand the reasons, I want to state that this is going to
>make 
>support a mess.
>
>Both versions are called 4.8.0, but do not contain the same code.
>
>So when someone says "With Qt-4.8.0 I have the following issue", it will
>never 
>be clear which 4.8.0 this is about, we'll have to educate everyone to say
>in 
>addition if this is 4.8.0-LGPL or 4.8.0-Commercial. Couldn't the version
>number be different, when the code is different, instead? E.g. 4.8.0c.
>That 
>doesn't fit into the numerical QT_VERSION, but at least qmake -query and
>every 
>other location which shows a qt version number (packages, qt creator,
>etc.) 
>would show clearly 4.8.0c instead of 4.8.0.


To some extent Linux distributions have always done that as well, and I
still remember something called qt-copy in KDEŠ ;-)


Cheers,
Lars