[Development] Clarification on Mac 10.6 support for Qt 5.2

Turunen Tuukka Tuukka.Turunen at digia.com
Fri Jun 7 13:55:03 CEST 2013




On 7.6.2013 13.22, "Koehne Kai" <Kai.Koehne at digia.com> wrote:

>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: development-bounces+kai.koehne=digia.com at qt-project.org
>> [mailto:development-bounces+kai.koehne=digia.com at qt-project.org] On
>> Behalf Of Heikkinen Jani
>> Sent: Friday, June 07, 2013 11:03 AM
>> To: Thiago Macieira; development at qt-project.org
>> Subject: Re: [Development] Clarification on Mac 10.6 support for Qt 5.2
>> 
>> Hi!
>> 
>> >The problem is that the revert needs investigation. I'm not sure that
>> >reverting this commit alone is enough or won't break other things out
>>there.
>> 
>> For me this sounds quite risky move. Is it really so that we have to do
>>this for
>> Qt5.1 and even Qt5.1 RC1? Or is it possible to make Qt5.1.0 with this
>>and
>> solve this in Qt5.1.1?
>
>
>Alright, let's get this straight. After talking to Eike I understand the
>following:
>
>Situation with Qt 5.0.x
> - binary installers are compiled with OS X 10.7
> - You can deploy with them to 10.6, except QtWebKit (missing symbol)
> - If you want to deploy QtWebKit with 10.6 you have to compile Qt
>yourself on OS X 10.6
>
>So, the 10.6 story is already broken somewhat for QtWebKit, even with Qt
>5.0.x ...
>
>Situation with Qt 5.1 as it is
> - Binary installer is compiled with OS X 10.7
> - You cannot deploy with them to 10.6
> - If you want to deploy to 10.6 without QtWebKit you have to compile Qt
>yourself, on OS X 10.6, or on OS X 10.7 and above with -no-c++11 (to be
>verified)
> - If you want to deploy to 10.6 including QtWebKit you have to compile
>Qt yourself, on OS X 10.6
>
>My suggestion:
> - Leave Qt 5.1.0 as it is right now, move on with the release process
> - Investigate providing an additional binary installer with Qt compiled
>10.6 (e.g. with 5.1.1)
> - Thoroughly document the problem for people compiling their own Qt

+1 for this suggestion

Yours,

		Tuukka




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