[Development] Qt 5 beta

[Thiago Macieira]

On sexta-feira, 31 de agosto de 2012 13.40.38, Peter Kümmel wrote:
> > On the #qt-release channel, then reviewed through Gerrit.
> > https://codereview.qt-project.org/33837
> 
> This is a little bit "behind closed doors".
> Similar to the decision releasing beta without any note on the list.

It wasn't closed-doors. The commit was public. If you wanted to find out about 
it, you could have set up a Gerrit notification on the qtrepotools repository. 
The #qt-labs channel had a link to #qt-releases on its topic, inviting 
everyone to participate in the process.

We can't very well announce every single change we're making on the mailing 
list. I only post when it's large, relevant for others, or when I really need 
input from others.

Finally, this *was* a subjective choice: mine. I want to drive adoption of 
newer, better technology. LZMA is a great improvement over the compression 
technologies used so far and the xz format is getting interesting adoption. 
Many thanks to Julian Seward for bzip2 (among other projects he's contributed 
to), but xz is producing smaller packages nowadays.

So, I'd say that our position is: stop complaining and upgrade. If you can't 
upgrade, there's .gz and you'll pay the penalty by increased disk space in 
your system.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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