Qt 5.4 for Plasma 5.2

[Aleix Pol]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 12:26 AM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:

> 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?
>

It wasn't discussed. I would say that if Qt 5.4 is delayed Plasma 5.2 would
stay with Qt 5.3, but that's my conjecture.

Aleix
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