[Qgis-developer] PR1007 bump minimum to 4.7: objections?

[Werner Macho]

Hi!

As I already wrote in some of my former emails and Richard pointed it
out in his email

DESKTOP support for lucid is already ceased
SERVER support is still valid until mid of 2015

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS

As our packages are not in the "official repository" of these projects
anyway I doubt we MUST take care of that.
Personally I think there is only a minority still using Lucid out there ..

If there is a _good_ reason for pushing QT MIN to 4.8 I would drop
lucid and do it.

kind regards
Werner


On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Richard Duivenvoorde
<rdmailings at duif.net> wrote:
> On 27-11-13 09:34, Jürgen E. Fischer wrote:
>> Hi Richard,
>>
>> On Wed, 27. Nov 2013 at 08:17:47 +0100, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote:
>>> to be able to clean up the Pull Request list, I ask people if anybody
>>> objects to bumping minimum Qt to 4.7
>>
>> I don't see a point in this.  The pull request will just break the lucid builds
>> without adding anything new (or cleaning out any old code that requires Qt
>> <4.7).
>
> Ok. Clear. Then we should close the two pull requests with the message:
> we want to provide lucid builds untill .... so before that time we will
> not upgrade Qt...
>
> BUT: I read that Canonical does not support lucid on the desktop
> anymore, but given that we also have QGIS-server, we cannot move until
> april 2015 :-(
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ubuntu_releases#Ubuntu_10.04_LTS_.28Lucid_Lynx.29
>
> Same counts for the old Red Hat/RHEL versions.
>
> If companies like redhat and canonical stop upgrading applications
> (being desktop or server), should we as a project keep supporting QGIS
> with our testing/master version?
>
> People who use RHEL and Canonical LTS are used to older versions of
> applications, so in QGIS case, could stay with QGIS2.0?
>
> Sorry for stirring this up again. As a project should take a position on
> this, I think?
>
> I agree that this specific Pull Request does not clean up code. But we
> can also ask the PR-owner to either do that, or see this PR as the first
> step for this.
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Duivenvoorde
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