[Buildroot] [PATCH v3 0/7] qt5 bump to 5.8.0-rc

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Tue, 13 Dec 2016 17:15:37 +0100, Peter Korsgaard wrote:

> Related to that - With the move to GPLv3, should we keep v5.6 around
> next to v5.8 for a while (as a version selection or separate packages)?
> 
> Maintaining both is not really nice, but GPLv3 is an issue for some
> people/companies.

I agree that this license change can be an issue for some
people/companies. However, for them, staying on Qt 5.6 is no a viable
solution long term either, right.

Also, do we do this for Samba ? For gcc ? For the myriad of other
projects that moved to GPLv3 ?

Isn't it going to be a pain to maintain both versions in parallel? A
Config.in choice doesn't get randomized on our autobuilders, so the
older version would never be tested.

So I'm not particularly thrilled with supporting both versions :/

Thomas
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