[kde-freebsd] Will there be a Qt5-Port?

Max Brazhnikov makc at issp.ac.ru
Tue Oct 22 16:58:40 UTC 2013


On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 07:15:59 -0400 Jerry wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 23:05:51 +0000
> Schaich Alonso articulated:
> 
> > Qt5 will come, but very likely not in the near (i.e. before
> > 10-RELEASE) future.
> 
> And "There's the rub". 10.x will be released and then the updated QT5,
> forcing users who wish to use the newer version to do what could amount
> to a rather time consuming installation of the newer port and the
> recompiling of the ports that are then affected. Poor planning at
> it's best, yet one that FreeBSD engineers continually implement.
> 
> A far sounder method would be to have QT5 ready prior to the release of
> 10.x which would allow users who either do a fresh installation or an
> upgrade of their present system to avoid that unnecessary down time.

There is absolutely no ground for your worries. As Alonso said Qt5 won't be in
ports before 10.0 release, but he didn't say it will be after.



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