[Qt-interest] Qt 4.7.1 Linux libs

[Thiago Macieira]

On Thursday, 11 de November de 2010 00:58:44 Joshua Grauman wrote:
> It sounds like you are agreeing with what I said, is that correct?

Yes.

> 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?

Yes.

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

We were doing that until Qt 4.7.0. We decided to skip for a while because Qt 
Creator needs its updates.

But going forward, the thinking is to do it even less. We'll probably do it 
only four times a year.

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