[Qt-interest] VC8 SP2 Build for 4.5.3

[Eric Clark]

> 
> 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?


Understood. I was just curious if there were some problems with the new libs that
I was unaware of. Microsoft really messed up our releases when they did this 
service patch. We had to make our users upgrade to SP2 because our company
requires us to update. It is quite a pain when they decide to change the
version of the CRTs and not inform anyone. It took a while to figure out why
our application would not start on other peoples machines simply because they
needed to update Visual Studio.

Eric

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