Bumping qt version

Jaroslaw Staniek staniek at kde.org
Tue Jan 15 20:25:39 GMT 2019


On Tue, 15 Jan 2019 at 21:13, Adam Pigg <adam at piggz.co.uk> wrote:

> Sailfish will shortly (tm) be upgrading to 5.9 so that wont block for
> much longer i hope.  My understanding is they are working out the
> legal issues around the license changes ... technically the port is
> ready.  I dont really understand the issue myself!
>

Yes I noticed. 5.9 is much for conservative such as OS vendors / hardware
platforms.
Yet, I meant the pattern - it is not uncommon that people bump more than to
5.9. Doing so just because, say, "Qt 5.11 works on my desktop" is not
optimal approach.


>
> On Tue, 15 Jan 2019 at 12:01, René J.V. Bertin <rjvbertin at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Tuesday January 15 2019 12:53:03 Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
> > > If there's no reason to force upgrade, I would not. Also (guess what)
> LTS
> > > distros seem refuse to upgrade without users doing extra steps.
> >
> > Amen to that!
> >
> > I'm very annoyed by the fact that KF5 Frameworks just moved to Qt 5.10,
> for no real good reason AFAICT.
> > (As a result I find myself backporting the necessary bits of 5.10 to my
> Qt 5.9 build...)
> >
> > R.
>


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