[Qgis-developer] Minimum qt version - bumping to 4.6?

[Andreas Neumann]

+1 for 4.8 as the minimum version.

4.8 is on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS release.

Andreas

Am 2013-11-15 08:18, schrieb Werner Macho:
> +1 for 4.8 too
> 
> As mentioned in earlier posts .. old Qt might only be interesting
> running on servers .. and people using server should be able to
> configure them (meaning being able to install everything by themself
> if they really want to use very old distributions)
> 
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 8:56 AM, Paolo Cavallini 
> <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:
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>> Il 15/11/2013 05:14, Martin Dobias ha scritto:
>> 
>>> I do not like the idea of being held back from upgrading minimal
>>> requirements by one distribution. I think it is fairly reasonable to
>>> expect that only older software will work with older distributions.
>>> Moreover, I guess the share of CentOS/Redhat users is quite low even
>>> just among linux users because it is mainly server oriented. And even
>>> then those users should not have trouble installing newer Qt from
>>> third-party packages.
>>> 
>>> Finally, newer versions of Qt are also more stable - with a release 
>>> of
>>> new minor Qt version the older branch typically stops receiving
>>> further bugfixes.
>> 
>> agreed fully - with tens of Linux distros, keeping with the one with 
>> the oldest Qt is
>> a major drawback.
>> besides this, I think we should move forward with a decision: having 
>> the same
>> discussion as one year ago, and not taking a decision, would be 
>> pointless.
>> in short: +1 for 4.8, please send your opinion.
>> all the best.
>> - --
>> Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu
>> Corsi QGIS e PostGIS: http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html
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