[Development] Proposal: All Qt modules must use the same version number

[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer]

On Friday 27 June 2014 11:28:14 Koehne Kai wrote:
[snip]
 
> My 2 cents from the packaging/installer side: Any artifact that is heavily
> bound to a specific Qt build / release, but isn't part of the Qt package
> itself, is making things complicated.

As distro packager, yes, it's making things complicated.

[snip]

> That's of course only the binary installer ... I can't judge whether e.g.
> distributions would appreciate separate releases of QtWebEngine.

No if it uses private headers.

I currently need to rebuild on all arches gammaray, fcitx-qt and pyqt5 each 
time I upload a new point release for this exact problem [0]. I would really 
like to avoid adding new stuff to that list, as it is a real PITA.

[0] Even if API/ABI matches, there seems to be a runtime detection of 
different versions of Qt in qobjectprivate. I can really understand why that 
check is there, so the best solution is to avoid "third party" stuff to use 
private headers. Having a different release schedule will certainly make any 
package count as "third party" in my POV.


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Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
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