Review Request 109503: Compile with current qt dev branch

[Ben Cooksley]

On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 4:12 AM, David Faure <faure+bluesystems at kde.org> wrote:
> On Sunday 17 March 2013 13:51:39 Stephen Kelly wrote:
>> Ben Cooksley wrote:
>> > Long term we either need:
>> > 1) A commitment from the Qt project to make keeping qt5.git updated a
>> > high priority (block all new commits from entering any submodule until
>> > the issues in question are fixed for instance) or
>> > 2) We need to decide to adopt either qt5.git or individual submodules
>> > as our only supported build option.
>>
>> Ok, if you want to revert the change and use pristine qt5.git I'm fine with
>> that too.
>
> Yes, I'd rather that we go back to qt5.git.
> It represents a stable base for everyone, so we all use the same version of
> Qt5.

This has now been changed on build.kde.org.
I've scheduled a build for frameworks now, so we should know shortly
regarding the build state of it.

>
> Otherwise we'll have all the temporary breakages from qtbase dev creating
> trouble (e.g. someone commits a SIC, we realize the next day, it's fixed the
> day after, meanwhile KF5 contributors who updated Qt5 fix compilation to the
> new API, breaking things for KF5 contributors with an older qt5, and then when
> the revert comes in, we get to undo our changes, breaking compilation yet
> another time for people who didn't update yet...).
> And meanwhile we lost a large number of developer hours, because people were
> watching qt5 recompiling instead of working on KF5 itself.
>
> Using qt5.git simply requires being patient after we get something into Qt,
> since it takes time to propagate up to qt5.git. But there's enough to do
> meanwhile...
>
> And we can always help the Qt devs updating qt5 faster. Right now it seems to
> require a stable->dev merge for qt5.git, which failed in one unittest, I'm
> actually setting up for testing if I can reproduce that.
> https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,49698
>
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>

Regards,
Ben