Plans for Qt 6

[Tobias Leupold]

Am Freitag, 20. Januar 2023, 14:46:40 CET schrieb Johannes Zarl-Zierl:
> Hi Tobias,
> 
> Am 20. Januar 2023 00:34:31 MEZ schrieb Tobias Leupold <tl at stonemx.de>:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >as of yesterday, the KDE frameworks depend on Qt 6, cf.
> >https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-devel/2023-January/001586.html
> >
> >I suppose we do want to port KPA to Qt 6. But, speaking of Gentoo (where
> >I'm still hanging around, even after all these years of compiling pain
> >;-), this seems to be a bit hard at the moment. Qt 6 itself is still
> >hard-masked, and there are no Qt 6 KF packages to install, at least
> >without manual changes, overlays, handwork and whatnot.
> >
> >So, at the moment, it would be still a bit hard to mess with Qt 6 KDE
> >Frameworks on Gentoo.
> 
> I'm on Debian unstable, which is certainly not any more current than Gentoo,
> so my situation is similar.
> >So, just asking ... what's our Qt 6 plan? :-)
> 
> I'm inclined to take the same stance as with the Qt5 transition: start as
> soon as it's reasonably easy to do. If possible, keep a Qt5 branch for back
> ports of important bugfixes around for a limited time.
> 
> Cheers,
>   Johannes

Sounds good :-)