necessitas beta and stable release

[qtnext]

Hi,

First congratulation for this great jobs (and I now that all people do
that on their personnal times ... I don't understand why Intel is no
investing in Qt for androids regarding his strategy
Meego/Android/Windows) ...

Is there an approximate timeline for the beta and final release ? Will
your works merge in open governance Qt projects ?

[BogDan Vatra]

Hi,

We are planning to release another two alpha then we'll release beta and stable.
Next alpha (alpha3) we contain a lot of new things check [0], I'll
highlight only a few:
- OpenGL support
- seamless assets support
- most probably we'll switch to android built in atomics, this will
break the ABI !!!

On alpha4 we'll rewrite java part and Ministro.

Yes we have an approximate timeline:
- release alpha3 this month.
- release alpha4 till end of november. (if we finish java part and
Ministro earlier, we'll release it earlier).
- if NO regressions will be reported, alpha4 will be renamed as beta
release, hopefully until the end of this year. Beta release means
we'll guarantee API & ABI compatibility, so, you can safely deploy
your apps to Android Market.

Cheers,
BogDan.

[0] http://community.kde.org/Necessitas/Schedules/alpha3

2011/9/12 qtnext <qtn...@gmail.com>:

[qtnext]

thanks for this answer ... smell good :)
Do you think necessitas wil be merge in Qt regarding Qt open governance
(qt-projects) ?

Le 12/09/2011 20:27, BogDan Vatra a �crit :

> Hi,
>
> We are planning to release another two alpha then we'll release beta and stable.
> Next alpha (alpha3) we contain a lot of new things check [0], I'll
> highlight only a few:
> - OpenGL support
> - seamless assets support
> - most probably we'll switch to android built in atomics, this will
> break the ABI !!!
>
> On alpha4 we'll rewrite java part and Ministro.
>
> Yes we have an approximate timeline:
> - release alpha3 this month.
> - release alpha4 till end of november. (if we finish java part and
> Ministro earlier, we'll release it earlier).
> - if NO regressions will be reported, alpha4 will be renamed as beta
> release, hopefully until the end of this year. Beta release means

> we'll guarantee API& ABI compatibility, so, you can safely deploy

[Artem Marchenko]

Ok, so Beta is the point of API/ABI compatibility! That's an important
point to know, thank you for sharing.
Until then I'll release only free stuff to Android Market.

What happens with the apps released before Beta? Is new Ministro going
to replace the old one (i.e. old apps may suddenly be broken) or are
you going to have new name for updated Ministro, such as Ministro Beta
so that old apps could continue using the old libs?

Artem.