[Qt-interest] Qt 4.7.1 Linux libs

[Joshua Grauman]

Thiago,

Thanks as always for your input on this list. I don't take it for granted.

It sounds like you are agreeing with what I said, is that correct?

To summarize:
Building Qt on an older (but not ancient) distro will enable that version 
of Qt to run on more Linux distros.

Nokia does this (compiles on an older distro) with the Qt libs included in 
the Qt SDK.

The only way to get up-to-date Nokia compiled Linux libs is in the Qt SDK.

Nokia isn't releasing the Qt SDK with every version of Qt.

Correct?

Is there any way/thought of releasing Linux libs with every release of Qt?

Thanks!

Josh

>> Building on an older distribution is by far no guarantee that stuff will
>> run on newer versions. Quite the contrary, for example we're still
>> shipping a libc5 version of our app, but that one is not usable on many
>> recent distro's (on some there's still a compat package). Same applies
>> to the dependencies of Qt, in particular the ones that are newer and
>> still break their ABI from time to time.
>
> Huh..., we said "old distro", not "positively ancient" :-)
>
> libc5 was replaced by glibc 2.0 back in 1998 or 1999. I was using Linux 2.0 at
> the time. I doubt it even compiles these days on modern kernels, though it may
> run.
>
> No, we're talking about simply old, a couple of years at most.
>
> Another option is an LSB build of Qt.
>