Thread: Sailfish SDK version 1608 (2.0.2) Qt5 released
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2013-10-14 , 14:01
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Originally Posted by rainisto View Post
Someone needs to keep the libraries up-to-date, so if your willing to update your favourite library few times a month for the next few years, then your welcomed to donate your time to mer-project. Good libraries are always welcomed, the problem is to find active maintainers to all the libs.

If there are thousands of outdated libraries that doesn't compile anymore, for example when gcc toolchain or glibc updates, then you are easily in a mess.
Well, libs aren't updated that often, but you're right that they don't package themselves. And last time I checked Sailfish used gcc-4.6.x and glibc-2.15 which are pretty old ... but next time there's a major update to gcc/glibc it's common sense to rebuild every package of the distribution. But I'd wager most (if not all) package maintainers already know this.
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But the WM7 "horse" has a blood lineage tracing back to donkeys such as WM6.5, 6.1, 6.0, 5.1 that was fully neglected for too many years and Microsoft did sweet F all to maintain it (still running on Pocket IE4/6!!).