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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE backward compatibility issue
From:       Milian Wolff <mail () milianw ! de>
Date:       2015-02-04 18:04:52
Message-ID: 1819811.fSu8nPZVfJ () milian-kdab2
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On Wednesday 04 February 2015 20:42:53 Vasily Khoruzhick wrote:
> Hi Sebastian,
> =

> On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 8:15 PM, Sebastian K=FCgler <sebas@kde.org> wrote:
> > There are patches for Qt < 5.4 around which are have been shipped by
> > various distributions for quite some time. Martin's blog, which you
> > linked from your initial email, links them:
> > =

> > http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2014/06/where-are-my-systray-icon=
s/
> =

> Both dropbox and viber ship their own Qt5 libraries. These are
> proprietary applications, so there's no way to recompile them.

If these apps link against Qt5 statically (which they can, assuming they pa=
y =

the license fees to Digia), then they will need to recompile and release an =

updated version. If otoh they just ship they own set of libs and adapt =

LD_PRELOAD or similar, then one can still exchange the libraries.

And, if they do this, then they need to do this regularly anyways to benefi=
t =

from the bug fixes and potential security fixes in Qt upstream.

Bye
-- =

Milian Wolff
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http://milianw.de

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