[Qt-interest] VC8 SP2 Build for 4.5.3

[Thiago Macieira]

Em Quinta-feira 8. Outubro 2009, às 21.47.07, Eric Clark escreveu:
> > Em Quinta-feira 8. Outubro 2009, às 20.59.20, Eric Clark escreveu:
> > > Hello All,
> > >
> > > I am running into some incompatibility issues with the latest release
> > > of  4.5.3. Basically, the machine that we build our releases on is
> > > upgraded to
> > >  SP2 and the commercial build available for VC8 (VS2005) is built
> >
> > with SP1.
> >
> > >  This is causing a problem on the machines that we distribute to
> > > because Qt  wants the old *.756? versions of msvc*.dll instead of the
> > > new  *.4053  versions of the same libraries. Does anyone know if
> > > trolltech/nokia plans  on providing a build for VC8 (VS2005) SP2 in
> > > the commercial downloads  directory? Or am I going to have to build
> >
> > Qt myself?
> >
> > We're not going to provide VC8 SP2 binaries for 4.5.3. We'll study it
> > for the final 4.6.0 release.
> 
> Why would you choose to build under old conditions and not the latest
>  conditions? 

Because until your email, I had no idea that SP2 was even out.

Other reasons:
 a) not everyone upgrades immediately
 b) we prefer to keep compatibility with previous releases, so you can just 
drop-in a new Qt to your existing, already compiled project
 c) upgrading the compiler in the build farm isn't very easy

>  It seems to me that it would make more sense to provide builds
>  for the latest stuff and not provide builds for the old stuff. I thought
>  Qt likes to be ahead of the curve, providing the latest and greatest? Is
>  there some reason that you guys chose to build it with the old libs?

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