[Development] Qt/Android Ministro Question

[BogDan]

Hi,

  Well, from your mail it looks like Ministro is a second class citizen deploying method which IMHO is not true at all. Bundling Qt libs into the apk is *one* of the official *ways*, meaning that Ministro is also *one* of the official *ways* ;-)! Every deploying method has advantages and disadvantages but it doesn't mean that one is more official than the other.

Marry Christmas and a happy new year to all!

Cheers,
BogDan.




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>Hi,
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>The official way is to bundle Qt libs with your app. Ministro is another way to do it and community supported. So it is not guaranteed to have everything always in the very latest release through Ministro. In practice there is not long delay.
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>Yours, 
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>Tuukka 
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>From: Travis Allen
>Sent: maanantaina 23. joulukuuta 2013 20.59
>To: BogDan; development at qt-project.org
>Subject: Re: [Development] Qt/Android Ministro Question 
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>I am using 9.6.8 that I sideloaded from your mailing list request for people to test.
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>Yes, I agree that there will not be much changes however for Android KitKat there is a *major* bug in any version of Qt 5.2 before rc1 (maybe including rc1 too? I forget now) that causes all Qt applications on KitKat to crash when they are started (100% of
the time). Currently Ministro pulls down an older version of Qt than is required for any Qt application to launch on KitKat.
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>I am wondering why official 5.2 binaries weren't available to Ministro when they were officially released, or at least shortly thereafter. If Ministro is the suggested way to get Qt binaries for applications on Android (as I understand it is) it should be pulled
into the official release timeline. It isn't good for Qt when a developer can compile his application using the latest and greatest and it crashes on Android using Ministro for weeks after a Qt version is released.
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>This is not meant to be critical towards you BogDan (you've done some amazing work with the Android port) - it is a suggestion that if we want Qt to be successful on Android we need to keep the runtime library distribution in sync with releases. Ideally updating
Ministro would be pulled into the official Qt release so when it is announced it is already available for download on Android.
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>Thanks!
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>Travis Allen
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>From: BogDan [bog_dan_ro at yahoo.com]
>Sent: 23 December 2013 12:12
>To: Travis Allen; development at qt-project.org
>Subject: Re: [Development] Qt/Android Ministro Question
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>Hi,
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>  Ministro was updated a few days ago on Google Play, please make sure you are using the latest version (9.6.8).
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>Cheers,
>BogDan.
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>P.S. Qt 5.2 rc1 are almost the same with Qt 5.2 final for Android. I'll update them soon to official Qt 5.2.
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>----- Original Message -----
>> From: Travis Allen <tallen at blackberry.com>
>> To: "development at qt-project.org" <development at qt-project.org>
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>> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2013 6:58 PM
>> Subject: [Development] Qt/Android Ministro Question
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>> I asked this on the qt android developer list last week but haven't heard
>> anything back.
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>> Is there somewhere that we can tell which version of Qt is being downloaded by
>> Ministro? Qt5.2 was released over a week ago but Ministro still seems to be
>> pulling pre-5.2rc1 Qt5 libraries (I am testing on a KitKat android device so
>> anything Qt pre-5.2rc1 crashes on start).
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>> Considering Android is now a supported platform shouldn't Ministro be
>> updated at the same time Qt is released?
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>> Travis
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