Dependency freeze exception request for kdevelop & kdev-php on kdevelop-pg-qt

[Albert Astals Cid]

El diumenge, 21 de juliol del 2024, a les 21:49:50 (CEST), Friedrich W. H. 
Kossebau va escriure:
> Hi,
> 
> I have to request an exception to the Gear 24.08 dependency freeze for
> kdevelop & kdev-php:
> 
> There is a hard dependency on a yet to be released version of kdevelop-pg-qt
> (on own release schedule, not part of Gear).
> That sadly so far was shadowed by KDE CI setup and local installations of
> development versions.
> 
> See https://invent.kde.org/kdevelop/kdev-php/-/merge_requests/21 for a
> respective dependency bump prepared for kdev-php.
> One for kdevelop would follow once the plan is approved.
> kdevelop-pg-qt 2.3 release would also happen the next days by me.

Seems reasonable to me regarding the KDE Gear plans.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Background:
> kdevelop (qmake plugins) & kdev-php use kdevelop-pg-qt to generate some
> parsing code. The currently released versions of kdevelop-pg-qt have
> Qt5-only code in the deployed utility headers, which are used from the
> generated code (e.g. QString::midRef).
> While kdevelop-pg-qt got prepared for Qt6 already in 2022, the release was
> delayed waiting for the Qt6 ports of the only known consumers kdevelop &
> kdev- php, for some potential synchronization of any Qt6-related changes.
> And by the time it had been forgotten all the released version still only
> are Qt5-only.
> 
> Cheers
> Friedrich