[Buildroot] Change in Qt5 download URLs

[Buildroot] Change in Qt5 download URLs

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

The download URLs for the Qt5 submodules tarballs have recently
changed, which is quite annoying for embedded Linux build systems.

But what's even more annoying is that the new organization of files
adopted in http://download.qt-project.org/ seems to imply that the most
recent version of Qt is available in
http://download.qt-project.org/official_releases/qt/, and then, once a
newer Qt release is shipped, the older one gets moved to
http://download.qt-project.org/archive/qt/.

This is really annoying for embedded Linux build systems: they have
recipes to help people cross-compile many libraries/applications to
create an embedded Linux system, and therefore they contain the URL of
upstream tarballs of source code. Moving tarballs around after a
release has been made breaks the recipes of all those build systems.

Would it be possible for the Qt project to adopt a file organization
that does not move tarballs once a release has been made?

Thanks!

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux
development, consulting, training and support.
http://free-electrons.com

[Buildroot] Change in Qt5 download URLs

[Thiago A. Corrêa]

Hi Thomas,

      Don't know if your message caught the attention of the ppl
responsible in the interest mailing list, so I would suggest resending
it to releasing at qt-project.org and development at qt-project.org, which
are more suited.

      See: http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2013-August/012694.html

Kind Regards,
     Thiago A. Correa

On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The download URLs for the Qt5 submodules tarballs have recently
> changed, which is quite annoying for embedded Linux build systems.
>
> But what's even more annoying is that the new organization of files
> adopted in http://download.qt-project.org/ seems to imply that the most
> recent version of Qt is available in
> http://download.qt-project.org/official_releases/qt/, and then, once a
> newer Qt release is shipped, the older one gets moved to
> http://download.qt-project.org/archive/qt/.
>
> This is really annoying for embedded Linux build systems: they have
> recipes to help people cross-compile many libraries/applications to
> create an embedded Linux system, and therefore they contain the URL of
> upstream tarballs of source code. Moving tarballs around after a
> release has been made breaks the recipes of all those build systems.
>
> Would it be possible for the Qt project to adopt a file organization
> that does not move tarballs once a release has been made?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Thomas
> --
> Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
> Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux
> development, consulting, training and support.
> http://free-electrons.com
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