[Development] Reproducible Qt ; the purpose of QLibraryInfo::buildDate

[Thiago Macieira]

On Thursday 05 February 2015 11:07:29 Koehne Kai wrote:
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> > Thiago Macieira
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2015 6:18 PM
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> > Subject: Re: [Development] Reproducible Qt ; the purpose of
> > QLibraryInfo::buildDate
> > 
> > On Tuesday 03 February 2015 07:40:12 Sune Vuorela wrote:
> > > So, can someone enlighten me on the purpose of this function?
> > 
> > This function was added when we opened the repository back for 4.5.1
> > because we couldn't keep the configure.exe linked against the license key
> > decoder, which contained the expiration dates for evaluation licences. It
> > was used by the nag screen in those builds.
> > 
> > That was then. I have no clue now if the function is still used.
> 
> It's not used anymore in the evaluation process, AFAICT. I wouldn't mind
> deprecating it ...

Then change it to 2012-12-20.

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