Bumping min. requirements to Qt 5.8 & KF 5.50 for KDevelop 5.6?

Heinz Wiesinger pprkut at liwjatan.at
Wed Feb 12 15:17:30 GMT 2020


On Tuesday, 11 February 2020 21:33:12 CET Milian Wolff wrote:
> On Dienstag, 11. Februar 2020 00:32:24 CET Sven Brauch wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Monday, 10 February 2020 15:52:35 CET Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> > > Are the KDevelop maintainers fine with KDevelop 5.6 reaching only users
> > > via
> > > packaged distribution no longer on Ubuntu LTS 18.04? Like, hoping at the
> > > time of KDevelop 5.6 (surely post 20.04) they have mostly jumped to the
> > > then latest LTS version?
> > 
> > as mentioned in the RR already, I don't see a big issue with this. In my
> > experience over the years listening to user questions on forum.kde.org and
> > on IRC, almost all of the people with old Ubuntu LTS are at work and
> > simply
> > want to use an up-to-date KDevelop. They are completely happy with the
> > AppImage. The maybe-mismatching icon theme of this one application is not
> > the level of pain this user group operates at. ;)
> 
> I agree. I'm personally even OK with requiring 5.12 or something like that.
> That said, is there an overview somewhere to check the version of a package
> across different distributions? That would make it easier for us to check
> what we are doing here. Is LTS 18.04 the only somewhat recent distro that's
> going to "miss" us?

There's https://repology.org/project/qt/versions, it's a long list though :)

Grs,
Heinz
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