[Development] Retiring libtiff too

[Thiago Macieira]

Em terça-feira, 3 de maio de 2016, às 07:06:41 PDT, Lars Knoll escreveu:
> On 03/05/16 08:58, "Development on behalf of Thiago Macieira"
> <development-bounces+lars.knoll=qt.io at qt-project.org on behalf of
> thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
 
> 
> >Em terça-feira, 3 de maio de 2016, às 06:39:42 PDT, Lars Knoll escreveu:
> >
> >> Ideally, I would like to get rid of these libraries in src/3rdparty.
> >> Instead, we should build up to date versions of these libs in Coin, and
> >> simply ship those together with our Qt libraries. With the online
> >> installers it should in the longer term even be possible to ship updates
> >> for these libraries independent of a new Qt release.
> >
> >
> >How about Windows users who build from source?
> 
> I don't see an issue here. If we have them in Coin, we should get both
> source and binary packages.

I meant that those users are used to the Qt build (especially qtbase) 
including just about everything they need for a complete Qt. It's not what I 
advise, but it's a convenience those users will miss. So I am asking: are we 
ok with dropping that convenience?

-- 
Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center