On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 1:37 PM David Edmundson <da...@davidedmundson.co.uk> wrote: > > We've discussed a few times an issue with plasma-integration and > supporting Qt5 and Qt6 clients. > > When we release Plasma 6, we need to ensure that a Qt5 and Qt6 builds > are released. We need users to have both as they are plugins where > users might have Qt5 and Qt6 codebases. > > Right now master branch supports both. The Qt branches are massively > divergent for Qt 5 and 6 clients and we're filling it with a huge mess > of if statements and it's a pain to work on. There's patches blocked > on needing ifdefs. > > The proposal is we make a Plasma/6.0-qt5 branch based off the current > Plasma/5.27 branch but fixing the version numbers. > > At release time we will release a tarball from Plasma/6.0 and > Plasma/6.0-qt5 with different tarball names. > Translations would have to be considered. Pragmatically translations > will be identical to 5.27, though it's not guaranteed. > > Before we go ahead, are there any objections and can release team > people and i18n confirm they're ok with the above. > > David
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