What's "qt5-stable" on build.kde.org

[Martin Gräßlin]

On Tuesday 16 September 2014 20:12:26 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> El Dimarts, 16 de setembre de 2014, a les 12:37:31, Milian Wolff va 
escriure:
> > On Tuesday 16 September 2014 21:50:57 Ben Cooksley wrote:
> > > On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 9:45 PM, Martin Gräßlin <mgraesslin at kde.org>
> 
> wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday 16 September 2014 21:23:54 Ben Cooksley wrote:
> > > >> I wrote this a bit too quickly.
> > > >> The correct url is
> > > >> http://build.kde.org/view/External_Deps/job/qt5_master_qt5/
> > > >> 
> > > >> What the system means by "stable" in the output is that is the branch
> > > >> that it should theoretically be building against.
> > > >> This information is drawn from the build metadata available to it. It
> > > >> has no correspondence with the job name.
> > > >> 
> > > >> In the case of Qt 5, this information is maintained in the CI scripts
> > > >> own
> > > >> files.
> > > > 
> > > > thanks, that explains it. From the latest build log:
> > > > 
> > > > "Branch jenkins set up to track remote branch stable from origin."
> > > > 
> > > > and the stable branch seems to no longer being updated on upstream's
> > > > side.
> > > > qtbase is set to 8fa9121 according to build's output.
> > > > 
> > > > This is older than the patch I got into Qt 5.
> > > > 
> > > > Maybe it would be better to track the 5.3 branch instead?
> > > 
> > > That is a development decision. Once taken, the necessary file to
> > > adjust is the same as for all other KDE projects:
> > > logical-module-structure
> > 
> > Yes, there is no "stable" anymore upstream. 5.3 is probably a good choice
> > for now, until 5.4 is released.
> 
> Hmmmm, don't know, the thing is we're only requiring 5.2, maybe we want to
> require 5.3 if we know it won't work otherwise (i.e. Martin's test)?
> 
> Or we prefer to keep the minimum at 5.2 while recommending 5.3?

If the minimum is 5.2 it would obviously be best to test compile frameworks 
against 5.2. But that might make things more difficult on the CI system as we 
have software depending on 5.3.

Cheers
Martin
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