Qt5 is required

David Faure faure+bluesystems at kde.org
Sat Jan 19 18:51:25 UTC 2013


On Saturday 19 January 2013 14:59:54 Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> On Saturday 19 January 2013, David Faure wrote:
> > Dear KDE Frameworks hackers,
> > 
> > It's time to drop the Qt4 compatibility, in order to use the new things
> > from Qt 5 which we need to continue simplifying dependencies between
> > frameworks.
> > 
> > Please compile Qt5 using the "dev" branch.
> 
> Qt 5.0 is not good enough ?

Nope.

Necessary things are only in 5.1 (QSaveFile, Q_COREAPP_STARTUP_FUNCTION, 
QX11Info),
and more and more of these things will be there over time.

The hassle of supporting two Qt versions will only slow down development and 
dependency cutting.

-- 
David Faure, faure at kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr
Sponsored by BlueSystems and KDAB to work on KDE Frameworks



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