[Qgis-psc] How to handle upstream Qt fixes

Ludovic Hirlimann lhirlimann at 3liz.com
Fri Sep 3 23:45:19 PDT 2021


On 9/3/21 00:46, Nyall Dawson wrote:
> Hi PSC, devs,
>
> I'd like to kick start some discussion on how best to handle the
> situation with upstream Qt and their (lack of) support for Qt 5. As a
> quick summary of the situation:
>
> - Qt Co effectively ended open source support of Qt 5 at the 5.15.2
> release, and have moved all focus to Qt 6.
> - While some preliminary work has been done, QGIS doesn't currently
> support Qt 6 based builds, and likely won't be ready for this for some
> time (even completely ignoring all the stable API questions a Qt 6
> build raises entirely!)

Wouldn't it be wiser to devote resources to moving to QT6 and do that 
faster than

wait on potential unsuported 5x fixes ?


Ludovic

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