[Interest] Compiling QtCreator on top of Qt5.8

[Dennis Lange]

Ok then it is only me who did not realize that checking out the main git
on a specific version number does not mean that sub modules will be on
the same version. Anyway now I got it. Thanks!

Am 07.10.2016 um 15:23 schrieb Thiago Macieira:
> Em sexta-feira, 7 de outubro de 2016, às 09:22:02 CEST, Dennis Lange escreveu:
>> Thanks for your replies! I found out what is going wrong.
>>
>> Qt's Wiki page https://wiki.qt.io/Building_Qt_5_from_Git is missing that
>> you need to init-repository with --branch parameter because dev is older
>> than 5.8. For everyone who is new to Qt's git repository this will cause
>> serious compiling trouble and surely raise traffic on Qt's repository
>> server.
> 
> dev is not older than 5.8, but it may be missing the last week of commits into 
> the 5.8 branch, just as 5.8 may be missing the last week of 5.7 and 5.7 the 
> last week of 5.6. It just takes time for the changes to propagate through 
> merges from one branch to the next one.
> 
>> Wiki pages should also reflect that it is better to compile Qt outside
>> of it's git directory.
> 
> No, they shouldn't. Using the default is fine. 
> 
> By the way, the current default should be 5.7, since it's the current stable. 
> After the beta, we'll switch to 5.8.
>