[Kde-pim] QT 5.6.0

[laurent Montel]

Le vendredi 15 avril 2016, 01:48:58 CEST Sandro Knauß a écrit :
> Hey,

Hi,

> I see that the first bumps to Qt 5.6 are made in messagelib etc. These make
> the CI unhappy because there is no Qt 5.6 available.

CI needs to install it.

> Why we need Qt 5.6?

Because in some weeks we will depend against qtwebengine 5.6

> If
> everyone inside KDE is happy with Qt 5.5? It would be nice if we can talk
> about those bumps before they happen. Because building new Qt is not a easy
> task.

It's in master version.
So you can build or add devel package.

> And I would like to get away from buming to new versions directy if
> they get released. If there is no need to bump, than leave the needed
> version untouched.

It will be necessary in future.

> It is really making the time for distribution hard to ship new versions, if
> the version dependencies are unnessary high.
> Also keep in mind all newcommers need to build everything that we depend on,
> if the versions are not available on their system...

Newcommers ?:) where ? Who ?:)

> 
> One example with Qt 5.6 - this can't lend inside debian because plasma
> crashes with it hard - a fix is on its way or got released with 5.6.1.

> This
> is one example, why distributions can't ship the newest what soever
> dependency - and if we need that for kdepim that means we make it harder
> for distributions to ship it.

It's master not official release so it"s not a problem for distro otherwise they 
will provide new qt package.

> 
> Regards,
> 
> sandro
> 
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