On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 1:02 AM, Cyrille Artho <c.ar...@aist.go.jp> wrote: >> >> Note that part of the problem is that for retina support we would >> require Qt 5. There are a few pending issues with LyX and Qt 5, as >> noted here: >> http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/9215 >> >> And we keep finding more (two weeks ago, Kornel found a bug due to Qt >> 5: http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/9412). >> >> I think that it still makes sense to go forward, but I just wanted to >> point this out. At some point we need to make a decision regarding >> which minimum version of Qt 5 we want to require. >> >> Scott >> > I would recommend going with a very recent version of Qt5. If we go through > all the trouble of adapting the code, there is no need to support older > versions. We'll have to support updated versions of Qt5 soon enough... > Keeping in mind at least latest Ubuntu LTS seems not unreasonable to me, though. If we decide to go above this requirement, we shall incapacitate a good chunk of our user base. Right now Ubuntu Trusty 14.04 LTS ships Qt5 5.2.1. If technically not too cumbersome, I would suggest keeping this as a minimal requirement.
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