[QGIS-Developer] trying Qt6 build here

[Nyall Dawson]

On Thu, 4 Aug 2022 at 18:53, Richard Duivenvoorde via QGIS-Developer
<qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> At my 'apt upgrade' today (Debian Testing), I saw a lot of Qt6 related packages flying in (also QtCreator update to 8)...
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> Wondering if it would be beneficial to QGIS if I start to try a Qt6 build.
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> What is the status, is there anything there to see/test yet, or it is just building the core to test how Qt6 will be build into the future?

There's not much to see -- you can build the core and analysis
libraries, but around 30% of the tests fail right now.

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> ... thought to see if I could make stuff build, but cannot get around this python plugin error, even after disabling a lot of plugins etc:

There's no work been done yet to get python support for Qt 6 -- to get
the build to work you need to switch off everything except core and
analysis in cmake first.

Nyall