ktp-text-ui requires Qt 5.7 but does not at the CMake level

Niels Ole Salscheider niels_ole at salscheider-online.de
Thu Mar 23 19:55:38 UTC 2017


On Thursday, 23 March 2017, 20:18:25 CET, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> Please keep the release team mailing list in the loop.
> 
> El dijous, 23 de març de 2017, a les 9:42:36 CET, Niels Ole Salscheider va
> 
> escriure:
> > Hello Albert,
> > 
> > On Wednesday, 22 March 2017, 22:59:38 CET, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > > Niels,
> > > 
> > >   your "Port to QWebEngine" commit increased the requirement of
> > >   ktp-text-ui
> > > 
> > > to Qt 5.7 and now it does not compile.
> > > 
> > > https://build.kde.org/job/ktp-text-ui%20Applications-17.04%20stable-kf5-> > > qt
> > > 5/ PLATFORM=Linux,compiler=gcc/4/console
> > > 
> > > You have two options:
> > >  * Introduce some #ifdefs similar to what
> > > 
> > > https://cgit.kde.org/kde-baseapps.git/commit/?id=bfd09bcec03e8080bfce33f
> > > 85
> > > 0
> > > c54bcff3a4a475 provides. * Actually require Qt 5.7 in the CMakeLists.txt
> > 
> > Is Qt 5.7 an acceptable dependency? It seems that if I would #ifdef the
> > failing code the context menu would break which does not seem good.
> 
> From the release team perspective it is acceptable even if not ideal since
> it means it will fail to compile on CI, at least it will fail with a
> meaningul error and not with a "can't include this file" error.
> 
> Not sure if ktp has a maintainer, if it exists, that person probably has an
> opinion too.

I have created a review request that changes the Qt dependency:
https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/130044/

I think ktp has no maintainer currently.

> Best Regards,
>   Albert
> 
> > > The Beta tagging is in 25h, so please fix it ASAP.
> > 
> > I'll fix it today after work.
> > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > 
> > >   Albert




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