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

[Vincent Picavet]

Hello,

Le vendredi 15 novembre 2013 05:14:00, Martin Dobias a écrit :
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> > It's probably reasonable to bump Qt version once per year, so in 2014 if
> > CentOS/Redhat 7 comes out I expect it will have something newer (4.7+)
> 
> 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.

+1 to that !
Let's bump QT version and walk ahead.

Vincent

> 
> Regards
> Martin
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