On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 9:08 PM, Georg Baum <georg.b...@post.rwth-aachen.de> wrote: > Liviu Andronic wrote: > >> 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. > > IMHO qt 4.x support should not be dropped for 2.2.0. Therefore, one could > require qt 4.8 (which is quite old) if qt 4.x is used, or 5.4 if qt 5.x is > used. Linux users who do not use bleeding edge distros can then use qt4, > Agreed, makes sense.
Liviu > and > on OS X and Windows (where we build the packages ourselves anyway) we can > use the latest qt 5. AFAIK all qt problems which are solved by qt5 occur > only on OS X or Windows. > > Summary: Requiring a very recent qt5 does IMHO not kill support of old linux > distros. > > > Georg > -- Do you think you know what math is? http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/ian-stewart-2013-08-02 Or what it means to be intelligent? http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/john-duncan-2013-08-30 Think again: http://www.ideasroadshow.com/library
