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Re: Qt5 and 4.2 release?
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Rik |
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Re: Qt5 and 4.2 release? |
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Mon, 8 Aug 2016 13:26:47 -0700 |
On 08/08/2016 01:19 PM, Mike Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 12:27:19 -0700, Rik wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> Should we elevate this bug report to a blocker for the 4.2 release
>> (https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?40252)?
> Sure. I'd be happy to take another stab at this. Should we drop support
> for Qt 5 or allow both 4 and 5? If both, Should we allow configure to be
> run with options like
>
> --with-qt=5
> --with-qt=4
> --with-qt (default)
> --without-qt
>
> and the default behavior would be to try Qt 5 first and fall back to Qt
> 4? I think getting the configure rewrite done right would be the hardest
> part of supporting both major versions of Qt, since the pkg-config and
> library names are all different.
It seems like we're still in a transition period and should be able to
support both Qt4 and Qt5. The naming scheme seems easy to understand.
--Rik