[oe] [meta-qt5] Keep Qt 5.6.x

[Changhyeok Bae]

Hi Mikko

> I'll check if we could share our branch to bring Qt 5.6.2 base to jethro
which is mostly just cherry-picked patches from krogoth branch.
That's great and qt company is also managed qt 5.6.x in 5.6 branch of their
repository (http://code.qt.io/cgit/yocto/meta-qt5.git/)

Thanks
Changhyeok

2017-10-12 16:03 GMT+09:00 <Mikko.Rapeli at bmw.de>:

> On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 10:03:01AM +0900, Changhyeok Bae wrote:
> > Hi maintainers
> >
> > Qt 5.6 is LTS version and not GPL3 license.
> > So why don't you keep v5.6.x in master branch?
> > Many companies, opensource projects and developers would like to use Qt
> > v5.6 in master branch to use it with latest yocto release.
>
> Hear, hear. Another complication is that users like us might be stuck with
> an
> older Yocto release.
>
> Even if v5.6.x were not maintained in master branch, it would make sense
> for users of Qt v5.6.x in yocto world to share patches in meta-qt.
>
> I'll check if we could share our branch to bring Qt 5.6.2 base to jethro
> which
> is mostly just cherry-picked patches from krogoth branch.
>
> -Mikko




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Thanks
Changhyeok