I'm not sure how complete the Qt5 transition is in QGIS. I wouldn't want to switch until it's fairly stable, and not in the middle of a long term release (2.8) even if it's only for 2.10+ builds, it's very difficult to have 2 Qt versions installed side by side.
On Jun 8, 2015, at 10:56 PM, Nyall Dawson <nyall.daw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 9 Jun 2015 1:07 pm, "Larry Shaffer" <lar...@dakotacarto.com> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > This can be fixed for Qt 4.8.x, but requires direct access to the Cocoa API > > when needed to introduce the non-Qt-source workarounds noted in the > > QTBUG-40449 [0]. > > > > Btw, this is an example of my old PR [1] to introduce abstracted calls to > > the OS (Mac for example, with Objective-C++) to handle changes in OS API > > libraries and keep such workarounds in one place instead of peppered > > throughout the source tree. Especially for those instances where Qt fails > > us, but a direct call to the OS could be abstracted for a workaround where > > needed. > > > > Unfortunately, it is a significant change that needs really tested well, > > and certainly not reasonable to introduce into 2.10 as a fix, as it is more > > of a feature. > > > > I never upgraded to 10.10 for several reasons, but am about to, or I would > > have noticed this nasty bug sooner. > > > > [0] https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-40449 > > [1] https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/1084 > > Thanks for looking into this Larry, > > I'm wondering - is there anything stopping the OSX builds from moving to the > Qt5/pyqt4 combination? I gather qt4 on 10.10 is unsupported and probably has > a lot of little quirks like this we can't easily fix. I'm tipping the next > OSX release will have even more. But since we're not relying on a distro and > are more or less free to choose dependencies on OSX, couldn't we switch the > OSX build across now? > > Nyall > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer ----- William Kyngesburye <kyngchaos*at*kyngchaos*dot*com> http://www.kyngchaos.com/ All generalizations are dangerous, even this one. _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer