[Releasing] qtwebkit 5.5.2 or 5.6.0

[Thiago Macieira]

On Monday 30 November 2015 12:49:49 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
> On Monday 30 November 2015 13:13:10 Frederik Gladhorn wrote:
> [snip]
> 
> > As for source tarballs I think we have so far not considered producing
> > tarballs as Jani writes, why do you see the necessity?
> 
> Distributions who have lots of apps still using qtwebkit will simply love
> these tarballs. As a last resort we can create them from git but still
> better if we can use an upstream tarball.

That is a good reason. The other is the fact that our tarballs are not simple 
equivalents of git archive, so there's some post-processing left-over that 
some users will not realise they need.

Asking people to download from Git will lead them to download from GitHub:
	https://github.com/qtproject/qtwebkit/archive/dev.zip

And we know the build from a git archive export does *not* *work*.

Please create the tarballs and upload them. They don't have to be built to 
binary and they don't have to be part of the joined source code, but they will 
need to exist.

And we'll need to keep releasing every time that we change qtbase in such a 
way that breaks the build of those modules.
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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center