[Development] What's the story for Qt5 on Harmattan?

alex.blasche at nokia.com alex.blasche at nokia.com
Wed Jan 18 14:41:57 CET 2012



> -----Original Message-----
> From: development-bounces+alex.blasche=nokia.com at qt-project.org

> On Thursday, January 12, 2012 06:50:58 AM ext xizhi.zhu at nokia.com wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Practically, since Qt Project has no plan to support Qt5 in Harmattan,
> > I believe the Harmattan-specific code sits in its own clone repository
> > (same as for QtonPi [1] and ), right?
> >
> > [1] https://qt.gitorious.org/qtonpi
> >
> 
> This is not correct I believe.
> 
> We are doing changes in qtbase, etc. for improved support of Qt 5 on
> Harmattan. I don't think it will make it to tier1 with just our effort, but we
> have a continued interest in running qtbase/qtdeclarative on Harmattan and
> it
> would be nice to keep things working as long as the maintenance required to
> do
> that is as low as it currently seems.

I believe this is a view colored by qtbase/qtdeclarative/webkit only. The picture is very different for networking, systeminfo, P&S or location, The backends are very large and complex and hardly (if at all) used by any other Linux derivate. Maintaining them is not a Sunday evening job. Unless somebody actually steps up and actively maintains them I believe the code will simply become unusable.  

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Alex



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