Qt 5.4 for Plasma 5.2

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dimarts, 28 d'octubre de 2014, a les 18:40:27, Aleix Pol va escriure:
> 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 ;)).

So what's the hangout people view on the dates being so close and Qt probably 
slipping? Will you guys delay or?

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Aleix