[Qt-interest] sdk with 471

[Oliver.Knoll at comit.ch]

On 2010-12-13 Randolph Randolph Dohm wrote:

> Hello Thiago, thanks for the feedback. So there is still hope, that the
> outdated SDk will be up to date soon. Please ... it is so a mess,
> especially on windows, to update the SDK install environment with a new
> library.

It cost me a few minutes to download the latest Qt libraries + a few additional minutes to set the PATH accordingly to point to the Qt libraries I want to use.

Then you delete the *.pro.user settings (in the simplest case), re-open the *.pro file with Qt Creator and set "Qt from PATH". Done.

On a Mac it is even simpler: simply re-install the latest Qt libraries, nothing else to be done (but you cannot switch between various Qt installations that easily, but that is more due to how "Frameworks" on a Mac work).

>  It might be simple for the advanced ones, but I am a good dummy
> test users, if i cannot do this, most of the users cannot do either. 

Well, it doesn't take that much cleverness to do that. ;)

> so
> please never never never release the sdk and/or frameworh without the
> other to a new version. What is the sense behind it? 

To give those waiting for bug fixes in a Qt library minor upgrade quick access to the latest Qt libraries, without waiting for all other components to be ready for a new SDK.

> ... So when will i be able to download
> the sdk for 471? 

"When it's done!" ;)

> until then the developement has been stalled, please
> commit to a date, so we can plan the ongoin of our team activities.
> Maybe it can be a slower release frequency, so all teams have not to
> update a running system each 4 months. 

Well, they don't have to. Unless you want to make use of new features or absolutely depend on a given bug fix.

> Release, if there is a new
> behaviour of qt, like openstreetmap integration or gesture recognition.

... or bug fixes. "Release often" is a common strategy in agile projects. The more often you release, the quicker bugs are uncovered.


So please, Trolls, keep the update cycles as they are :) It DOES make sense to update the Qt libraries more often than the "full monty" (Qt SDK). I DON'T WANT to re-install the whole IDE stuff, simply because there are new bug fixes available in a minor Qt update!

And for "not so advanced" people (his own words ;) like Randolph: let them stick to the slower update cycles of the SDK. He himself said he does not want to update every 4 months - so be it ;)

Cheers, Oliver
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Oliver Knoll
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