qt dll naming question

["Thiago A. Corrêa"]

Chris January wrote:
>>On Saturday 08 January 2005 15:29, "Thiago A. Corrêa" wrote:
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>>>Ralf Habacker wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi all,
>>>>
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>>>>The question is now, how does trolltech handle this stuff. Does 
>>>>anyone know if their release numbering system is 
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>>technical, say by 
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>>>>api changes or political driven ?
>>>>
>>>>cygwin for example uses a mixed system depending on the related 
>>>>package. Basically the use only on number, the major number, but 
>>>>there are also packages, which uses the minor number too and some 
>>>>packages uses additional the patch level number.
>>>
>>>Trolltech usually break binary compability only in major 
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>>releases, the 
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>>>middle number changes when new classes are added.
>>>
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>>That mean we should use only the major number like cygwin does. 
> 
> 
> Yes - I think Trolltech probably assume people will be distributing the Qt
> DLL with their apps on Windows so it doesn't matter about the version
> granularity. However because Qt/Win Free is GPL people would not only have
> to distribute the Qt DLL with their apps, but also make the full source
> available. Far better to get people to simply point users to the kde-cygwin
> site to download the binary and source. However if we adopt this policy it
> would be better to switch to only using the major version number, as you
> say, so that people can always download the latest version without any
> issues.
> 
> Chris

They have to distribute their own compiled binaries anyway since ABI 
between compilers is not guaranteed :)

Since *most* GPL software is distributed over the internet, developers 
using the GPLed Qt can simply point to this project somewhere in their 
documentation, that would satisfy the GPL since it's the same medium 
that the user got his binary ( internet )