[Interest] Qt 5.3 vs Qt 5.4 (etc)

[Thiago Macieira]

On Sunday 11 January 2015 23:04:38 André Pönitz wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 10:24:37PM +0100, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > Hi Rene,
> > 
> > On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 11:35 AM, René J.V. <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > If this principle was in place for Qt 5.2 too, I can thus upgrade my
> > > Linux
> > > box's Qt 5.2 (Ubuntu 14.04) to Qt 5.3.2 (backported from Ubuntu Vivid
> > > Velvet) without breaking the slew of packages that depend on Qt5?
> > 
> > Its been in place since Qt3, ABI breakages only occur between major
> > version
> > (3->4, 4->5).
> > 
> > Most Linux distro's wouldn't package Qt if they had to recompile all the
> > packages that depend on Qt if they switch from x.y to x.y+1.
> 
> Are you saying if distro 'Foo' ships a new version, they won't recompile all
> packages?

Some distros do, some don't.
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