[Kde-pim] QT 5.6.0

[laurent Montel]

Le vendredi 15 avril 2016, 08:55:37 CEST Kevin Funk a écrit :
> On Friday, April 15, 2016 8:46:48 AM CEST laurent Montel wrote:
> > 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
> 
> I think depending on Qt 5.6 (which is just a few weeks(!) old) is indeed not
> a good idea, even in master.
> 
> The qtwebengine support is still optional (i.e. messagelib can be compiled
> without, right?),

It will not in some weeks as it limits me to finish support so not.

> so why force 5.6 on users just because of an optional
> dependency? You should try to keep it optional for the time being.

Nope.

> I'm also saying this as developer who (sometimes) compiles kdepim. Not even
> Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (unreleased) ships Qt 5.6, thus I wouldn't be able to
> kdepim against my distro Qt.

16.04 is the last released version.

Regards.

> 
> Cheers,
> Kevin
> 
> > > 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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