RFC: Dropping Breeze + Oxygen Qt4 builds after

[Aleix Pol]

+1

On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 11:29 AM Harald Sitter <sitter at kde.org> wrote:
>
> +1
>
> On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 10:51 AM David Edmundson
> <david at davidedmundson.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > We're starting to see a lot of preparation for Qt6 porting API which
> > we know will be deprecated.
> >
> > One place where this is problematic is Breeze + Oxygen QStyles where
> > we currently provide Qt4 builds. I don't want this to hold us back and
> > be a problem later. It's also a problem for some shadow cleanup
> > happening now (D26475)
> >
> > I propose that we completely drop the Qt4 builds from Breeze+Oxygen
> > after Plasma 5.18.
> >
> > We're seeing distros phase Qt4 out, even Debian - and if a distro does
> > still want to package these, they will still have the option of
> > building the Plasma 5.18 tarball for Qt4 even after Plasma moves to a
> > new revision.
> >
> > CC'ing packagers to give them a chance to shout.
> >
> > David