Changing our minimum requirements to those of Ubuntu 20.04

[Albert Astals Cid]

El dissabte, 12 de setembre de 2020, a les 17:19:21 CEST, Yuri Chornoivan va escriure:
> субота, 12 вересня 2020 р. 18:17:02 EEST Albert Astals Cid написано:
> > El diumenge, 26 d’abril de 2020, a les 17:34:42 CEST, Albert Astals Cid va 
> escriure:
> > > Hi, i want to propose to increase our minimum requirements to those of
> > > Ubuntu 20.04
> > > 
> > > Qt 5.12
> > > cmake 3.17
> > > KF5 5.68
> > > 
> > > There's versions of fedora and opensuse with those so it doesn't seem
> > > controversial.
> > > 
> > > The most controversial would be poppler, that would raise the requirement
> > > to 0.86, effectively 0.80 since we don't use any 0.81, 0.82, 0.83, 0.84
> > > or 0.85 API.
> > > 
> > > This means that none of the opensuse Leap would be able to compile the PDF
> > > backend, only opensuse tumbleweed.
> > > 
> > > How problematic do you think that is?
> > > 
> > > Keep in mind this would be only for master so for the release happening in
> > > August.
> > Ping, how do you feel about it now for the 20.12 release?
> > 
> > Yuri, you were ones that mention that this increase may block you from
> > compiling. Has this been resolved?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> >   Albert
> 
> Not completely, but I have no objections to this version switch now.

Do you have an estimated date of when it'd be good for you?

The proposed 20.12 releases dependency freeze is November 5, i guess we could wait until somewhere around late October if it helps you.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Best regards,
> Yuri
> 
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