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[Zygmunt Krynicki <zygmunt.krynicki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I realize that current SDK doesn't work on 12.04 but perhaps our app
can run mostly "unharmed" on 14.04 version of the SDK+libraries which
IIRC are available all the way back to 12.04

Thanks
ZK

On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 8:04 PM, Sylvain Pineau
<sylvain.pineau@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Running on 12.04 won't be possible as we're now depending on the
> Ubuntu.Components 1.1
> which requires not only Qt5 but Qt5.3: See the welcome page of the sdk team
> ppa:
>
>     Ubuntu 12.04 LTS has older versions of packages offered in this PPA
> (ppa:ubuntu-sdk-team/ppa),
>     but the SDK support has moved to the new 14.04 LTS release.
>
> Regarding 14.04, I'm not getting Qt5.3 from any repo/ppa today (I didn't
> test from Qt website)
>
>
> On 09/25/2014 07:54 PM, Zygmunt Krynicki wrote:
>>
>> We should also plan for a transition of checkbox-gui (in the main
>> archive) early in the 15.04 series, as soon as the archive opens
>> basically.
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 7:45 PM, Zygmunt Krynicki
>> <zygmunt.krynicki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> [snip]
>>> 19:40 <@zyga> the biggest thing that didn't go in (and wont anytime
>>> soon) is manager.runner patchset
>>> 19:40 <@zyga> where you could just manager.runner.run(job, context, ui)
>>> 19:41 <@zyga> but that will go away along with the runner actually
>>> 19:41 <@zyga> runner will be decomposed to a shell runner + logger and
>>> a new class that interprets a job.plugin and converts that to a
>>> sequence of commands
>>> 19:41 <@zyga> (not shell commands)
>>> 19:41 <@zyga> (ui commands)
>>> 19:42 <@zyga> I realized that until we can kill checkbox-gui none of
>>> this can result in removing code :/
>>> 19:42 <@zyga> so I want to reach parity ASAP and kill checkbox-gui
>>> 19:42 <@zyga> one big problem to face is checkbox-gui requirements,
>>> aka 14.10+ :/
>>> 19:43 <@zyga> we will have to spend some time to get the app to work with
>>> 14.04
>>> 19:43 <@zyga> and put 12.04 SDK apps on life support (unless it can
>>> run the same as 14.04 but I haven't checked)
>>>
>>> So there you have it. It is in my interest to totally kill off
>>> checkbox-gui and the resulting piles of code we cannot change without
>>> changing C++ and dbus. To make that happen we need to have
>>> checkbox-touch (including pyotherside) that works on 14.04, and if
>>> possible on 12.04).
>>>
>>> I'll handle pyotherside. If you love hacking after hours, I'd love to
>>> know if we can get checkbox-touch to work on 12.04 + SDK ppa and
>>> vanilla 14.04.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> ZK
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