[kde-freebsd] KDE 4.11.4 and QT5

[Ajtim]

On Wednesday 15 January 2014 13:27:44 Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> On Monday 13 January 2014 17:54:11 Alberto Villa wrote:
> > 2014/1/13 Ajtim <lumiwa at gmail.com>:
> > > Is it possible to install QT5 (upgrade qt4) and KDE 4.11.4 from area51,
> > > please. In are51 is nothing in update what I am asking for.
> > Qt 5 is NOT an upgrade of Qt 4, it's a different version of the
> > framework. Right now you can't use it for anything, but I'm working to
> > make it committable.
> 
> As Alberto writes, Qt5 is not usuable with KDE 4. The situation is this:
> 
>  - KDE4 is QT4-only.
>  - Qt5 is sometimes source-incompatible with Qt4
>  - Qt5 introduces a strong emphasis on QML, which is new (relative to Qt4) 
> technology, although it's been available for, what, 2 years already.
>  - With Qt5, KDE is now "KDE Frameworks" and "KDE Applications", and the 
> entire layout of the packages they ship is changed; some things have moved 
> from kdelibs (developed in KDE4) into Qt, and the whole stack has become much 
> more modularized (some might say "fragmented", but that's only if you're 
> building it yourself).
>  - KDE Frameworks makes heavy use of the QML from Qt5.
>  - I gather Qt5 is a hard nut already on FreeBSD
>  - KDE Frameworks probably contains a year and a half of mostly-Linux 
> development and will be quite a challenge.
> 
> 
> [ade]
> 

Thank you for the explanation.

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