Alpha4 release status

[BogDan]

Ah sorry this is the good one http://files.kde.org/necessitas/installer/MinistroActivity.apk
BogDan.




>________________________________
> From: Willy Gardiol <willy at gardiol.org>
>To: necessitas-devel at kde.org 
>Sent: Monday, June 4, 2012 7:32 PM
>Subject: Re: Alpha4 release status
> 
>
>BogDan,
>the link for the apk is broken... "file not found"
>
>Il 04.06.2012 13:02 BogDan Vatra ha scritto:
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>>  As you may know the alpha4 release is approaching, the plan is to
>> have it ready before Qt Contributors Summit. It is almost completed, I
>> need a few days to polish the style plugin and Minitro and another few
>> to add support for context menus.
>> 
>>   A few days ago I pushed to Minnistro's "unstable" repository the
>> current alpha4 branch in order to check if the existing released apps
>> are still working. Even we've made some heavy changes and even if I
>> warn you that it may break the compatibility with older versions, I
>> wanted alpha4 to be backward compatible with alpha3, it is also a test
>> for Necessitas developers to see if we can keep our promise: to ship
>> releases which are backward compatible!
>> 
>> If you want to try it yourself please follow the next two steps:
>>  - uninstall official Ministro and use this one
>> http://files.kde.org/necessitas/MinistroActivity.apk.
>>  - install and run Ministro configuration tool (from market) and
>> choose unstable repository.
>> 
>> Don't forget that Ministro is not stable and it may crash/hang, if you
>> encounter any problems please reply on this thread.
>> 
>> Shorty after the repository was ready, I tried a few apps from market
>> and two major problems pop up:
>> - The first problem was related to some missing symbols and was caused
>> by compilation/linking flags.
>> - The second one is related to OpenGL and it seems to be caused by the
>> merge with Qt 4.8.2.
>> 
>> 
>> 1. Missing symbols problem: Android comes with almost no support for
>> C++, so to compile Qt we used (static) gnu-libstdc++.
>> Then I discovered that this was a big mistake (for more information
>> check Android NDK docs/CPLUSPLUS-SUPPORT.html "II.3. Static runtimes:"
>> section).
>> We can not use link libstdc++ statically if we are using more than one
>> shared libraries in a project. To fix this problem I had two choices:
>>  - to use the shared libstdc++ implementation and to change all the
>> scripts in order to add it to ministro (1.2M).
>>  - to "embed" the whole library into QtCore library (it adds and extra
>> 600K) but this change requires no additional changes.
>> 
>> I choose the second one [1],[2] because it was safe and easy and
>> mostly because it didn't needed any other changes.
>> If anybody has something against this change speak now or forever hold
>> your peace !
>> 
>> I'd like to add exceptions and RTTI by default, if the size and speed
>> will not be affected.
>> 
>> 2. OpenGL problem: After I merged alpha4 branch with upstream Qt
>> 4.8.2, most of the OpenGL apps are not working anymore, I tried to fix
>> it my self but I end up with a very ugly workarround. It seems that
>> 
>> "boolQGLContext::areSharing(constQGLContext*context1,constQGLContext*context2)"
>> always returns false. I tried to trace the problem but with no luck
>> and I end up adding a super dirty workarround: on android,
>> "QGLContext::areSharing", will always returns true. I really don't
>> like it, so until we'll figure out what is wrong the release process
>> will stop ...
>> 
>> Any help will on this matter be very appreciated !
>> 
>> I've spot another minor problem with old assets support it was caused
>> by "QString QDeclarativeTypeLoader::absoluteFilePath(const QString
>> &path)" I fixed it locally but I didn't had time to push the fix to
>> Minsitro's repository yet.
>> I'll keep you post with the progress and with any Ministro repository
>> changes.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> BogDan.
>> 
>> 
>> [1]
>> 
>> http://quickgit.kde.org/index.php?p=android-qt.git&a=commit&h=8c4c862ee26283d1f4cd698071d002577aff72df
>> [2]
>> 
>> http://quickgit.kde.org/index.php?p=android-qt.git&a=commit&h=abe85f41bd892a9948dda1fd8d124878c5bf37ab
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