[Development] Qt 4.8.1 release during week 11/2012

[Frederik Gladhorn]

Tirsdag 20. mars 2012 13.54.40 skrev ext Turunen Tuukka:
> On 20.3.2012 15.08, "Frederik Gladhorn" <frederik.gladhorn at nokia.com>
> 
> wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >another point regarding releasing Qt 4.8.1 just came to my mind. We
> >worked on
> >getting the unit tests released alongside the sources a while ago, but it
> >was
> >too late for 4.8.0. Will this happen for 4.8.1?
> 
> We have not included those, but it is possible to do so for 4.8.2 if
> needed.
> 
> >The reasons for that would be mostly to let Linux distributions run the
> >tests
> >in order to discover problems with their setup. I spoke with Ubuntu
> >people and
> >the feedback was that they would integrate tests in their packaging, if
> >they
> >were available as tarball.
> 
> We need to discuss how important these are for the average user as well.

I'd say, it can't hurt. We discussed simply creating a separate tar-ball as to 
not increase the download size.

(so either a tar/zip conataining only the tests, or with tests and sources, in 
parallel to the source only that we currently offer)

> But anyway, I would like to move this discussion for the 4.8.2 and have
> 4.8.1 released soon.

I agree.


Greetings
Frederik


> 
> Yours,
> 
> 		Tuukka