Qt 5.4 for Plasma 5.2

[Aleix Pol]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 6:40 PM, Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 6:29 PM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
>
>> El Dimarts, 28 d'octubre de 2014, a les 15:26:46, Jonathan Riddell va
>> escriure:
>> > Qt 5.4 is due to be released sometime soon.  Plasma 5.2 is due to be
>> > released in January.
>>
>> Let's give some dates:
>>  * Qt 5.4 release -> 2 Dec
>>  * Plasma 5.2 beta -> 19 Dec (tars)
>>
>> This seems *very* close to me given that Qt has a quite good track at
>> slipping
>> the releases.
>>
>> So there are two questions here:
>>  * Is there something in Qt5.4 that makes it clear we want to use it?
>>  * Do we care if Plasma5.2 is delayed because Qt5.4 is delayed?
>>
>> Also going with Qt5.4 reduces greatly the amount of people that can
>> contribute
>> to those that want to build Qt themselves.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>   Albert
>>
>> >
>> > Plasma devs only want to support one version of Qt.  There would be a
>> few
>> > useful features in Qt 5.4 that Plasma could use but we could also hang
>> back
>> > with Qt 5.3 if distros needed it.
>> >
>> > Would it be a problem to need Qt 5.4 in Plasma 5.2?
>> >
>> > Jonathan
>>
>
> What we discussed in the 5.2 hangout, was that whenever Qt 5.4.0 is
> released for good, then we will decide to bump the Qt version requirement.
> It was quite a heated argument by the way (for our standards anyway, nobody
> got hurt ;)).
>
> Aleix
>

By the way, if you're asking that with your Kubuntu hat on, I'd suggest to
go with 5.4.0 anyway, since there's many components that work considerably
better (QQuickWidget comes to mind).

Aleix
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