[Development] Qt/Android Ministro Question

[BogDan]

Hi,

  I just updated the Ministro repo. It should be visible in about 1 hour.

Merry Christmas and a happy New Year!

Cheers,
BogDan.







----- Original Message -----
> From: Travis Allen <tallen at blackberry.com>
> To: BogDan <bog_dan_ro at yahoo.com>; "development at qt-project.org" <development at qt-project.org>
> Cc: 
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2013 8:59 PM
> Subject: RE: [Development] Qt/Android Ministro Question
> 
> I am using 9.6.8 that I sideloaded from your mailing list request for people to 
> test.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Travis Allen
> 
> 
> ________________________________________
> 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
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
>   Ministro was updated a few days ago on Google Play, please make sure you are 
> using the latest version (9.6.8).
> 
> Cheers,
> BogDan.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
>>  From: Travis Allen <tallen at blackberry.com>
>>  To: "development at qt-project.org" 
> <development at qt-project.org>
>>  Cc:
>>  Sent: Monday, December 23, 2013 6:58 PM
>>  Subject: [Development] Qt/Android Ministro Question
>> 
>>  I asked this on the qt android developer list last week but haven't 
> heard
>>  anything back.
>> 
>>  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).
>> 
>>  Considering Android is now a supported platform shouldn't Ministro be
>>  updated at the same time Qt is released?
>> 
>> 
>>  Travis
>> 
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