Re: [Plplot-devel] Tentative plan for removing our support of Qt4

2019-09-07 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2019-09-07 16:46+0930 Jonathan Woithe wrote: 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 comme

Re: [Plplot-devel] Tentative plan for removing our support of Qt4

2019-09-07 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2019-09-06 21:33-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: @Hazen: In light of the smoke binding issue we should discuss this still tentative roadmap further. That smoke binding issue is bindings/qt_gui/smoke/ needs to be removed when we drop support for Qt4 because [smoke is not available for Qt5](https

Re: [Plplot-devel] Tentative plan for removing our support of Qt4

2019-09-07 Thread Jonathan Woithe
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 devel

Re: [Plplot-devel] Tentative plan for removing our support of Qt4

2019-09-06 Thread Hazen Babcock via Plplot-devel
@Hazen: In light of the smoke binding issue we should discuss this still tentative roadmap further. That smoke binding issue is bindings/qt_gui/smoke/ needs to be removed when we drop support for Qt4 because [smoke is not available for Qt5](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20636312).  You

Re: [Plplot-devel] Tentative plan for removing our support of Qt4

2019-09-06 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2019-09-02 13:36-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: Hi António: Your fix of the serious Qt5 font configuration bug for PLplot made our Qt5 results in PLplot-5.15.0 essentially as good as our Qt4 results for the first time ever. So ever since that release it has been on my mind to greatly reduce the

Re: [Plplot-devel] Tentative plan for removing our support of Qt4

2019-09-02 Thread António Rodrigues Tomé
Hi Allan, I really think that is safe to remove qt4 support. Sooner or later qt4 will not be available by default in a normal linux distribution. So I agree with your proposed roadmap. cheers, On Mon, Sep 2, 2019 at 9:36 PM Alan W. Irwin wrote: > Hi António: > > Your fix of the serious Qt5 f