[Development] Qt Commercial 4.8.0 release delta to LGPL version

[lars.knoll at nokia.com]

On 12/15/11 9:23 PM, "ext Olivier Goffart" <olivier at woboq.com> wrote:

>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.

Yes, having fixes in 4.8 that are not in 5 is a problem. However the
policy so far was to put the fix into 4.8 and forward port to 5.0. The way
to do that was to add the 4.8 repository to Qt5 using git alternate and
cherry-pick -x. IIRC, we even had a script to check for fixes that haven't
been forward ported to Qt 5.

Cheers,
Lars

>
>
>
>
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> Sinan Tanilkan
>> Mobile Phones Middleware - Integration and Quality Engineering
>> http://wikis.in.nokia.com/QtQualityEngineering
>> ________________________________
>> 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
>> Piippukatu 11, 40100 Jyväskylä, Finland
>> 
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