Scott Kostyshak wrote: > I was wrong---Qt 5.6 beta has now been delayed to 12 November. You can > read the short discussion regarding the delay here: > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.qt.releasing/1826 > We have a few options as to what we should do about LyX 2.2.0 alpha: > > 1. Wait a couple weeks for Qt 5.6 beta to release alpha. > > 2. Release alpha sooner with the Qt 5.6 snapshot. There is "Not full set of > installers but at least one for each platform" [1]: > http://download.qt.io/snapshots/qt/5.6/5.6.0-beta/ > The beta blockers are here: > https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-47958 > > 3. Release alpha sooner with Qt 5.5.1 (just released two weeks ago). > > Thoughts?
Haha this sounds familiar, they will delay again :) Anyway, while it is nice to care about our installers for mac/win, the main concern now should be releasing tarball and let the community fight the rest -- whether it means qt 5 snapshot, qt4 on other systems, whatever. I expect even releasing tarball will cause obstacles you haven't expected and the same applies for preparing installers. This can go in parallel with Qt people solving their problem. I would say that first alpha is more for distro maintainers/installer maintainers etc to catch their problems, not for users. We don't need to publish installers if it's too bad - but you will have all other tools and checks prepared when time is ripe... Pavel
