[Development] [Releasing] New Qt 5.7.0 RC snapshot available

[Ralf Nolden]

Am Freitag, 20. Mai 2016, 14:23:51 schrieb Thiago Macieira:
> Em quarta-feira, 18 de maio de 2016, às 15:04:24 PDT, Kai Koehne escreveu:
> > > So, an updated tarball for qtquick1 for 5.6 would be really much
> > > appreciated (so that it works with 5.6.x and 5.7.x)
> > 
> > It's the first time I hear someone asking for a tarball for QtQuick1.
> 
> We WILL NOT provide a QtQuick1 tarball for 5.7. 
Never mind, I've changed the FreeBSD port according to Simon's advice on IRC 
to use the branch, so at least my problem is solved :)


> This was advised during the
> Qt 5.5.0 release, over a year ago:
> 
> ====
>  - The QtWebKit and QtQuick1 modules and support for the QML 1 language
>    are deprecated and Qt 5.5 will be the last release to include
>    them. Starting with Qt 5.6, the source code for those modules will
>    not be included in Qt's packaging. Compiling the 5.5 release of
>    QtWebKit modules along with Qt 5.6 or future versions should
>    work. QtQuick1 is not guaranteed to work in future versions after
>    Qt 5.6.
> 
>  - The QtScript module is deprecated and will be removed from Qt's
>    packaging starting with version 5.7. The 5.5 and 5.6 releases of
>    QtScript should continue to work along with Qt 5.7 and future
>    versions.
> ====
> 
> That's because QtQuick1 uses Qt internals quite extensively. There's no
> guarantee that it will even compile, much less work.
> 
> Yes, this will be a pain for Linux distributions.

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Kind regards,

Ralf Nolden