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

[Denis Rouzaud]

Regarding last emails from Jürgen and Nyall, is this is a sufficient 
reason to bump to 4.7?

I don't what is worth my opinion, but +1 for me.

I believe we should reach a decision soon???

Cheers,

Denis

On 27. 11. 13 11:51, Nyall Dawson wrote:
> Ok - to add some context to this discussion -- I originally requested
> that we bump the dependency to 4.6 to get access to
> QGraphicsItem::rotation() and QGraphicsItem::setRotation(). I need
> these to fix composer item rotation. It's a bit of a code cleanup, but
> mostly a feature win in that using those methods I can add rotation to
> all types of composer items. It's 98% of the way there in these
> commits:
> https://github.com/nyalldawson/QGIS/commit/bd92774ea7ea5ed50a4fad9c83f45540125d61e0
> https://github.com/nyalldawson/QGIS/commit/f05dceb4bd63ca786aa36c0a60a8302567854889
>
> Pull request 1007 is basically a prerequisite to finishing this work.
> If there's no chance of getting the minimum to 4.6 then I'll have to
> abandon this branch. That's why I'm hoping to get 1007 pulled before
> spending too much more time on a feature which currently is impossible
> to merge to master.
>
> Early in this thread there was overwhelming support for setting the
> minimum to 4.8 - that's why request 1006 was opened. 1006 can probably
> be closed now since 4.8 looks unlikely.
>
> Nyall
>
>
> On 27 November 2013 21:43, Sandro Santilli <strk at keybit.net> wrote:
>> 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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