qca-qt5 (qt5 branch) merge into qca (master branch)

Aleix Pol aleixpol at kde.org
Thu Sep 24 12:19:23 BST 2015


On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Harald Sitter <sitter at kde.org> wrote:
> ahoy ahoy
>
> qca-qt5 as a "thing" is a build time switch on the same source as qca
> (qt4). so, it is the same source base but depending on how you run
> cmake you either get the qt5 or the qt4 build.
>
> originally various adjustments had to be made to qca-qt5 to make it
> work reliably without conflicting with qca (qt4), there was however a
> very long discussion on whether or not that is the right thing to do
> which eventually ended in the maintainer stepping down [anyone wanna
> maintain qca? it's like phonon but for crypto :)]. at the time qca-qt5
> as a tarball was released which had the changes and could co-exist
> with the regular qca tarball.
>
> now, since qca essentially has no lead authority we could do what was
> the original intention here. i.e. make the qca source base build two
> distinct libraries for qt4 and qt5 that do not conflict in any form or
> fashion. this would be a simple `git merge qt5` and then we can
> release a qca tarball that replaces the old qca-qt5 tarball.
>
> Q: any objections to merging qca's qt5 branch into master and
> replacing the qt5 tarball with a new release that supports both qt4
> and qt5?
>
> HS

It's the only branch I've been testing. I'd love to be able to use
master instead.

Aleix




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