RFC: Dropping Breeze + Oxygen Qt4 builds after

[A. Wilcox]

On Jan 7, 2020, at 3:51 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


FWIW, we haven't shipped Qt 4 in over two years. +1 from here.

--
A. Wilcox (Sent from my iPhone - not signed)
Project Lead, Adélie Linux
https://www.adelielinux.org/
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/plasma-devel/attachments/20200107/b4d44387/attachment-0001.html>