Changing our minimum requirements to those of Ubuntu 20.04

Yuri Chornoivan yurchor at ukr.net
Sun May 24 18:07:44 BST 2020


неділя, 24 травня 2020 р. 19:24:39 EEST Albert Astals Cid написано:
> El diumenge, 26 d’abril de 2020, a les 17:34:42 CEST, Albert Astals Cid va 
escriure:
> > Hi, i want to propose to increase our minimum requirements to those of
> > Ubuntu 20.04
> > 
> > Qt 5.12
> > cmake 3.17
> > KF5 5.68
> > 
> > There's versions of fedora and opensuse with those so it doesn't seem
> > controversial.
> > 
> > The most controversial would be poppler, that would raise the requirement
> > to 0.86, effectively 0.80 since we don't use any 0.81, 0.82, 0.83, 0.84
> > or 0.85 API.
> > 
> > This means that none of the opensuse Leap would be able to compile the PDF
> > backend, only opensuse tumbleweed.
> > 
> > How problematic do you think that is?
> 
> Ok, 100% of the people that answered said NO, I guess we will not increase
> the minimum requirements for now.
> 
> I'll add an alarm for 6 months or something
> 
> Cheers,
>   Albert
> 
> P.S: Yuri, there's no need to be passive agressive in your answers, we're
> all in this together :)

Actually, that was not "No", just a statement that I need screenshots to write 
the docs.

It was not aggressive. After all, within a couple of months I can switch to 
Mageia Cauldron when it becomes more stable (the release is planned on 
September) and then KF5 restrictions will not be painful for me.

Best regards,
Yuri

> > Keep in mind this would be only for master so for the release happening in
> > August.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> >   Albert






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