Increasing Qt dependency in master

Igor Kushnir igorkuo at gmail.com
Mon Oct 26 10:28:14 GMT 2020


On 2020-10-26 12:09, Milian Wolff wrote:
> On Montag, 26. Oktober 2020 09:30:30 CET Igor Kushnir wrote:
>> If we do make the leap to 5.12, I'd like it to be straight to 5.12.1
>> rather than 5.12.0 to ease porting from QRegExp::Wildcard to
>> QRegularExpression::wildcardToRegularExpression(). The behavior of this
>> function was changed in Qt 5.12.1 as it started anchoring its return
>> value to fix QTBUG-72539.
> Personally I'm fine with that.
>
> What distros would we lose by this move?
>
> Cheers
>
By requiring 5.12.0 we'd lose Debian stable [buster], old Ubuntu LTS 
[18.04] and old OpenSUSE Leap [15.1]. By requiring 5.12.1 we'd not lose 
any extra popular distro version in addition to these 3 releases, I think.

Igor



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