Thread: QT5.6 (Dec15) to be Long Term Support - implications for Sailfish?
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2015-07-02 , 18:07
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Originally Posted by mick3_de View Post
But keeping a fork of a specific version longer gets more expensive over time. If the 5.1->.2 update was already that painful I wonder how difficult a higher update will be?
The general process the Jolla guys work with is to get their changes upstreamed to the latest Qt and then back-port them to Qt5.2 for use on the Jolla. This is initially more work but it means that the two branches are converging not diverging.

GStreamer 1.0 is a prime example of this, its currently in testing for the next release (fingers crossed)
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