KF 5.37 requiring Qt 5.7

[David Faure]

On lundi 7 août 2017 17:36:05 CEST Rex Dieter wrote:
> David Faure wrote:
> > On lundi 7 août 2017 16:46:59 CEST Rex Dieter wrote:
> >> David Faure wrote:
> >> > On mercredi 2 août 2017 22:55:10 CEST Rex Dieter wrote:
> >> >> David Faure wrote:
> >> >> > According to the policy that KF5 should work with the last 3
> >> >> > releases of Qt5.x, it is time now for upcoming releases of KF5 to
> >> >> > drop support for Qt 5.6.
> >> >> > 
> >> >> > Packagers: is that acceptable?
> >> >> 
> >> >> I'd prefer to continue to allow 5.6 awhile, to continue to allow
> >> >> support for rhel 7.
> >> > 
> >> > That's curious, how do you package the parts of KDE Applications or
> >> > Workspace that already require Qt 5.7 ?
> >> 
> >> I haven't packaged those pieces yet.
> >> 
> >> Sounds like you may have moved forward anyway, so I guess I'll have to
> >> start
> >> the process of removing KF5 from the EPEL addon repository for rhel7.  I
> >> shame, I and a few others did a fair amount of work to get that in.
> > 
> > Isn't it an option to leave it in, at version 5.36, rather than removing
> > it completely ?
> 
> In the short-term, yes.
> 
> Long term, I'm not willing to ship (and support) this if it's not supported
> upstream either (where bugs are usually fixed in newer releases).

I thought you said that long term you were looking at upgrading to Qt 5.9...

In any case I'm not sure why Qt's promise to maintain 5.6 for 3 years means 
that all Qt-based libraries must promise the same.

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David Faure, faure at kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr
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