[Releasing] Qt 5 alpha 20120314: linux g++ x86_64 C++

[Girish Ramakrishnan]

Hi,

2012/3/17 Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com>:
> On sábado, 17 de março de 2012 11.52.51, Girish Ramakrishnan wrote:
>> I am unable to decide if this is a pass or a fail :)
>
> Huh? You can't decide? :-)
>

Well yeah, I can :) It's a failure by any measure.

I am not entirely sure though what the motivation behind the alpha is.
We are in a state where the whole build is in shambles. In my world,
an alpha is one where all modules build and prefixed install should
work. We can get no reasonable feedback if things are this broken.
Suggesting people know the dependencies of modules and build the
modules one by one by themselves sounds very cumbersome to me.

So, if alpha is a "state" of code (feature frozen, no api changes etc)
rather than a "release", let's not make source packages. The code is
simply in alpha state and let's make an announcement. Maybe create a
tag to mark the date. (Personally, I like this idea. Let's get all
this sorted out for a real beta release.).

Otherwise, we need to move the alpha date and spend some more time
fixing and testing all these build issues. We cannot "release" an
alpha which has entire essential modules absent. I would feel bad to
release a tar ball in it's current shape and waste an alpha tester's
time.

Girish