proposal: make plasma *not* build with Qt 5.8.0

[Michail Vourlakos]

On 22/03/2017 05:51 μμ, Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> Am 2017-03-22 14:37, schrieb Marco Martin:
>> Hi all,
>> I'm seeing lately many new crash reports in bugzilla which are with 
>> Qt 5.8.0,
>> and some even backtraces that i never seen.
>> Knowing the big problems that Qt 5.8.0 had, I've come to thinking 
>> that to make
>> even more obvious that 5.8.0 is discouraged, to make cmake fail in 
>> plasma-
>> workspace with exactly that version (with 5.8 from branch or 5.9 
>> still fine) so
>> if a distribution really wants that combination would have to patch 
>> it, making
>> it obvious it's their problem, and not supported.
>>
>> What do you think?
>
> We probably should strongly advice distributions to not use Qt 5.8.0.
>
> I informed them about the Wayland issue, but told them to also ignore 
> it if it doesn't matter to them.
> So if we have more issues we should tell distros about it. It just 
> makes all of us look bad if there are known issues and distros ship it 
> without better knowledge.

one such issue that hits my brain with Qt.5.8  and breaks the right 
click menu experience and I dont see to be resolved even at 5.9 is :

https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-59044
https://phabricator.kde.org/D4518
https://phabricator.kde.org/D4711
https://phabricator.kde.org/D4712



regards,
michail