Hi, I've spent a bit of time with Qt 5.5 alpha since its release in March. Here's the first screenshot of Ubuntu on it: https://plus.google.com/+TimoJyrinki/posts/Jw6Tx9QhC7S - thanks to the FTBFS bug fixers of maliit-framework, qtmir, unity8.
More information at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/QtTesting. WARNING: Not for end-users of any kind, only for fixing bugs, anything can break and the packaging is not proper. KDE Plasma 5 or Ubuntu SDK (Qt Creator) don't work yet. Unity 8 on phone or desktop should be testable. At this point it's too early to talk about shipping Qt 5.5, and I don't decide that. But what this partial alpha enables is starting to file and fix bugs earlier than ever: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/+bugs?field.tag=qt5.5 - I've filed ~20 so far. Upstream is 1.5+ months behind the schedule (https://wiki.qt.io/Qt-5.5-release), so even though this early work is useful, it's not necessarily going to be a fun ride to the feature freeze again. Looking beyond 5.5, I think it'd be nice to stay flexible about the Qt version. If Qt 5.6 targets November, slips to mid-December like 5.4 did, we get .0 about ready January/February assuming no big regressions and that's quite late for an LTS. The alternative to 5.6 would be to ship something like Qt 5.5.3 instead of the .0/.1 releases. Qt upstream has considered giving one of their release an "LTS" status. If that'd happen to be 5.5, maybe it would make sense for Ubuntu LTS too. But 5.6 would be a possibility as well, especially if upstream would target and deliver nearer to October. -Timo -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel