Hi Alan On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 01:36:30PM -0700, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > As someone here with a large familiarity with Qt, I would appreciate > you letting me know if you forsee any trouble with this overall plan > to remove our Qt4 support. And comments on this plan from the other > PLplot developers here are also encouraged.
Depending on the timing between the versions which make up the plan, I suspect this will be fine. FYI Slackware does not (yet) ship Qt5 (there are various reasons for this, the discussion of which is outside the scope of this thread). There is a third-party source of Qt5 for Slackware though which users can install if they have a need for Qt5. Therefore once PlPlot 5.18.0 rolls around, plplot will no longer be usable under a standard Slackware installation unless the Qt5 packages from the AlienBob repository are installed. The other option (which I'm personally *really* hoping for) is that Qt5 ships in Slackware by that time. If this happens, the yet to be released Slackware 15 will be the first Slackware version to ship Qt5 as part of the distribution. Given the low number of users of plplot on Slackware I don't believe your plan should be changed as a result of the above information, especially since there is a viable workaround. I mention it only for completeness so people are aware of the possible impact and the steps needed to circumvent it. Regards jonathan _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
