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

[Sandro Santilli]

May I ask why this discussion is happening here rather than 
on the pull request page ? I'd feel pretty lonely if I was
the contributor of it... :(

--strk;

On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 11:26:05AM +0100, Jürgen E. Fischer wrote:
> Hi Richard,
> 
> On Wed, 27. Nov 2013 at 10:25:36 +0100, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote:
> > > 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...
> 
> Apparently not so clear.  Lucid is not the point.  It that it's just breaking
> something w/o achieving anything else.  And that's essentially the only thing
> it does.
> 
> QGIS currently works with earlier versions.  That (tiny) change could be part
> of a larger PR that removes all the old ifdefed code, that will become useless,
> once QGIS refuses to be compiled on Qt <4.7 anyway.  Or when something else is
> added that requires Qt 4.7 (and which needs some effort to to maintain for Qt
> <4.7).
> 
> 
> Jürgen
> 
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