KDevelop does not build with older Qt

[Aleix Pol]

+1

On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 3:22 PM Milian Wolff <mail at milianw.de> wrote:
>
> On Mittwoch, 7. April 2021 12:01:14 CEST David Redondo wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > we claim we support building with Qt 5.9 but that is unfortunately not the
> > case in practice. A friend of mine tried to build KDevelop with Qt 5.11
> > which fails.
> > We have no CI coverage for anything pre Qt 5.15 and  I think this shows that
> > no Distro or anyone else actually builds KDevelop with such old Qt
> > versions. Either way we would have been notified of build failures.
> >
> > I see three options
> > 1) Be careful when committing to no break older Qt
> > 2) Build ourselves against the minimum required versions
> > 3) Bump the Qt version to what is actually tested
> >
> > It's clear that 1) did not work otherwise I would not be writing this email
> > ;D
>
> I'd opt for 3) myself for the master branch. Qt 5.15 will allow us to port
> away from deprecated API and prepare for Qt 6.
>
> Cheers
>
> --
> Milian Wolff
> mail at milianw.de
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