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[Alan Pope <alan.pope@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

We have an upcoming (in the new year) Qt transition to 5.2 on the
platform. At that point we'll start building system and core apps
against Qt 5.2 which will mean they won't work on older images which
aren't 5.2 based.

We have core apps and 3rd party apps in the store. Currently each app
in the store has one published version and that has ubuntu-sdk-13.10
defined as the framework in the manifest.json. Related, as I
understand it we have a plan to switch to ubuntu-sdk-14.04 at some
point in this cycle. Do we use this point in the cycle to switch the
apps to depend on the 14.04 framework, making those versions
un-installable on ubuntu-sdk-13.10 based images?

We _could_ maintain two branches of each app to be installable on
pre-Qt5.2 and post-Qt5.2 - or ubuntu-sdk-13.10 & ubuntu-sdk-14.04, but
can we deliver both to users simultaneously from the store? Does the
store (and indeed the Application scope) support multiple different
versions of the same app which are shown to different users depending
upon SDK framework level?

If the store and Apps scope do _not_ support this, when will they, and
what's the plan for implementation, or is there some other magic I'm
not seeing?

Cheers,
-- 
Alan Pope
Engineering Manager

Canonical - Product Strategy
+44 (0) 7973 620 164
alan.pope@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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