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

[Simon Hausmann]

On Wednesday, January 18, 2012 01:41:57 PM ext alex.blasche at nokia.com wrote:
> > -----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.

Right, if the maintainers of that code feel it's more of a burden, then it's 
definitely a good idea to remove the code. But in cases where that isn't the 
case it would be nice (nice, that's all) to keep it around for those who care 
about Qt5 on Harmattan.

Simon